LauraW
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2008
- Messages
- 421
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 09/2008
- Country
- US
- State
- New York
- City
- Fishkill
Oh man, I just need to vent. I know I need to be thankful and grateful for every day and I am really. And I am so grateful for the help I have already gotten...thank you Stu! But.....so the office of the aging has decided that they want to help keep seniors in their homes as opposed to a nursing home...so they want to help caregivers do this. Great! Thanks! So i call...give her my whole story. She tells me they can pay for someone to come in for 6 hours a week to "GIVE ME A BREAK". She says she knows it isn't much but I am thinking "thank you sooooo much. it IS a lot to me". THEN she tells me that this person can only do personal care so I will have to be in the house while she is here because she can't have anything to do with the vent or the feeding tube. So much for the help.........if my husband and I don't get out soon I am going to shoot myself (just kidding of course). I can get some help from my sister in law....and hear about how she helped us instead of doing "her" stuff for the rest of my life. Sometimes I just want to run away...anyone else feel like that? Really...I would go to the ocean (alone) and just sit on the beach and watch and listen to and smell the water! I am already there in my mind. Thanks for listening! I can't talk to anyone else. Now I have to put on a smile and see how Mom is doing after the horrible messy bowel movement a little bit ago. It was so bad that I had to change my clothes too. Ugggggg!