Chewy302
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- Jan 29, 2017
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- Loved one DX
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- US
- State
- Arkansas
- City
- Little Rock
Hello everyone,
I posted awhile ago, but I need to know that I am not the only one feeling like my ALS boyfriend uses his diagnosis as an excuse to not be involved in activities. And please let me explain before anyone thinks I am being selfish. We were together for several years before his diagnosis and he constantly complained about feeling this way or that way. He always talks of great plans but has very little follow though. Constantly taking different "miracle" vitamins that made his feel wonderful until he forgot to take them anymore. He has cabinets, drawers, boxes, etc, of multiple types of supplements that have been expired for several years during all of his experiments to find something that . In other words, I think he was already a hypochondriac/depressed and now we have ALS. He hardly eats anything except pizza, burgers, fries, and coffee. It is a small miracle if he even drinks an instant breakfast. This weekend he is convinced a different roast of coffee has upset his stomach. It is one thing after another, and I get so tired of hearing about all the research he puts into finding his next miracle vitamin.
Tonight, I invited him to my house for a short visit because my son is going on a trip out of state for spring break and thought he would like to see him before he leaves. I know for a fact he hasn't done anything terribly strenuous all weekend so didn't think it would be a very big deal. He had a visit with his dad today (at boyfriend's house) and says he is exhausted and probably won't see my son before he leaves. He only lives 7 minutes from me, so forgive me if I can't understand why it is so hard for him to come here, but he can go to Walmart and search for vitamins and buy food he is going to waste
I posted awhile ago, but I need to know that I am not the only one feeling like my ALS boyfriend uses his diagnosis as an excuse to not be involved in activities. And please let me explain before anyone thinks I am being selfish. We were together for several years before his diagnosis and he constantly complained about feeling this way or that way. He always talks of great plans but has very little follow though. Constantly taking different "miracle" vitamins that made his feel wonderful until he forgot to take them anymore. He has cabinets, drawers, boxes, etc, of multiple types of supplements that have been expired for several years during all of his experiments to find something that . In other words, I think he was already a hypochondriac/depressed and now we have ALS. He hardly eats anything except pizza, burgers, fries, and coffee. It is a small miracle if he even drinks an instant breakfast. This weekend he is convinced a different roast of coffee has upset his stomach. It is one thing after another, and I get so tired of hearing about all the research he puts into finding his next miracle vitamin.
Tonight, I invited him to my house for a short visit because my son is going on a trip out of state for spring break and thought he would like to see him before he leaves. I know for a fact he hasn't done anything terribly strenuous all weekend so didn't think it would be a very big deal. He had a visit with his dad today (at boyfriend's house) and says he is exhausted and probably won't see my son before he leaves. He only lives 7 minutes from me, so forgive me if I can't understand why it is so hard for him to come here, but he can go to Walmart and search for vitamins and buy food he is going to waste