Well, Daddy has been here for 10 days now. I'm a bit tired of being a nurse! Mom has actually shouldered more of the responsibility that I have, but I'm in charge of all the medications, doctors appointments, therapy appointments (there are at least 3 different therapists) and organizing stuff.
Meals are no longer being prepared for us. I understand why. But boy I wish we could have had them for another 2 weeks. It's just hard learning to juggle regular household duties with:
medicine at 8:30 a.m.
feeding at 9:00 a.m.
medicine at 9:00 a.m.
cleaning out trach. after meal
shower and dressing dad
feeding at noon
dissolve medicine at 12:30 p.m.
give medicine at 1:00 p.m.
feeding at 3:00 p.m.
feeding at 6:00 p.m.
medicine at 8:30 p.m.
feeding at 9:00 p.m.
medicine at 9:00 p.m.
then there's the laundry because he has towels that he keeps around in case he coughs too much out of his trach.
Don't forget I have 2 kids, am considering homeschooling, have the DSs in counseling to deal w/ this summer's events (as well as myself), in addition to O.T. for one of them, and speech therapy for both of them, and piano for one of them (which I finally canceled for the rest of the summer), an injured leg on the oldest, etc., etc., etc......
I've resigned my volunteer position at the elementary school and will soon finish my volunteer duties at church in about 3 more weeks.
All of that being said, my parents will probably go back to their house within the next 3 days or so. Then I guess I'll find out who my *real* friends are when I start calling and asking for help to get the downstairs part of the house livable again.
