Live and learn. I had thought my dad's surgery was the big hurdle to leap. Silly me! The hurdle is this crazy illness called "C-diff." Who knew you could be recovering from an insanely major AAA surgery (with more than a few complications) just to learn that the real challenge is diarrhea. Again, silly me! Live and learn.
Dad is home and we are caring for him there. It is interesting trying to organize your siblings when you are the 3rd born of 4. Whatever.... I will try not to take this personally. You can try to make a chart for people to sign up for times, but you can't make them organize their lives. I do my best, but there comes a time when I only have so much left. I know this too shall pass so I'm trying really hard not to go off on anyone. It is hard when your siblings don't get it that you too are sacrificing but that you won't make it look that way in front of dad. Hello, he does not need more to worry about! Our job is to make this look easy to him! DUH!
Should be an interesting conversation tomorrow with one particular sibling. I need to be calm when I advise this person that is is our JOB to make this look easy to dad. DUH! Wish me luck!
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So sorry to hear about the stress. Siblings, love mine, but they can drive me crazy. They seem to think I can do it all!
Good luck tomorrow. c-diff is really awful, but so glad your dad is mending so well.
Take care and I'll be thinking of you.
((((HUGS))))
[sigh] families... can't live without 'em, but you can't live with 'em...
It's close to night-impossible to organize other people who are either unwilling or just plainly too stoopid to want to be organized, believe me! lol
that c-dif scares me.
I don't even want to take antibiotics anymore because of the correlation.
I hope your family helps out as much as you have been.
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