Is denial part of the symptoms?
Visited this morning & he's been out pruning tomatoe plants in his greenhouse, it's tiny & if he falls down he'll be thro glass, I can't turn round in it! (too tall, not too fat btw) tell's me he has to start doing something, despite having to use a zimmer, suppose I should be glad he's soldiering on, but can't help worrying about the consequences should he…
Any way, after the diagnosis, we have a steady week or two, we know what we have to deal with, pain management is at last achieved, thanks to the Macmillan nurse, not the GP, we have the emotional stuff, I have to look him in the face, tears in both our eyes & tell him whatever happens I'll not see hime & mum split up. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last year, not going to let them be seperated untill the…
Sorry, don't really know if there is a protocol for this, I'll just waffle on tho.
Feel Helpless.
My dad, now 82, suffered his first heart attack, aged 63, just before my daughter arrived in 1991, went on to have problems for the next few years.
In 2001 he had a triple bypass, didn't really want to undergo the surgery, but it gave him his life back & left him fit & active, a success.
In 2002/3…
