One of the first things I did when my wife started showing the signs that she may have dementia was to go about establishing a better social life.
Realising that I needed to get her out more, plus something to help me cope, I managed to get her to start going to one of our local pubs and to cut to the chase, we now have a great bunch of friends who are very supportive and a great comfort to both of us.
As the title says though, you do miss this support when it is not there - in this case, just for an instant.
We normally go out on a Friday and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Usually, either I will text our friends or vice versa, to check whose out. Last night, I had not heard from anyone and I was a bit busy so we just headed of out anyway.
Turns out that for various reasons, none of our friends were out and we ended up like "Billy-no-mates".
The worse bit was that as my wife only had me for company, she became very restless and fidgety. She kept saying she needed the loo (she's mainly incontinent) but even when I took her into the ladies (they've no disabled toilet), she didn't actually "go". So we ended up going back home and when I checked, we'd only been out an hour!!
Hopefully, normal service will be resumed tonight?
Phil
Realising that I needed to get her out more, plus something to help me cope, I managed to get her to start going to one of our local pubs and to cut to the chase, we now have a great bunch of friends who are very supportive and a great comfort to both of us.
As the title says though, you do miss this support when it is not there - in this case, just for an instant.
We normally go out on a Friday and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Usually, either I will text our friends or vice versa, to check whose out. Last night, I had not heard from anyone and I was a bit busy so we just headed of out anyway.
Turns out that for various reasons, none of our friends were out and we ended up like "Billy-no-mates".
The worse bit was that as my wife only had me for company, she became very restless and fidgety. She kept saying she needed the loo (she's mainly incontinent) but even when I took her into the ladies (they've no disabled toilet), she didn't actually "go". So we ended up going back home and when I checked, we'd only been out an hour!!
Hopefully, normal service will be resumed tonight?
Phil