Father's Day

[jeriendhal]

So I was very bad for Father's Day and managed to talk Tracy into letting me order the Deluxe GURPS 4th Edition, with fake leather binding, a slipcase, and front page autographed by Steve Jackson and others. Tracy went down with her mom to view her dad's grave, while Tom and I went over to see Grandpa Day.

My dad was looking *much* better than the day before. He's recovering from a bout with bronchitis, and the medicine the damned doctor had given had left him looking horrible when I came by to be with him Saturday while mom visited with her friends. I'd had to help him get out of his chair and shadow him as he made his way twenty feet to the kitchen table so he didn't fall.

Every time I see him he just looks weaker and weaker. Mom can't really take care of him, he's just too big and tall compared to her, even if she is ten years younger than he is. So they're going to see about getting a day-nurse to come by every other day and be with him, and help him dress and bathe.



I hate to see him like this. He hates for me to have to see him like this, especially yesterday, when I helped him into the kitchen so he could pee into a bottle, because he was just too weak to make it up the stairs to the bathroom. I'm just glad they're going to soon be in a house that's just one story, so he won't have to do that anymore, and Mom doesn't have her heart in her throat everytime he goes up and down the stairs.

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

{{{{{hugs}}}}}

it's very hard to see someone who was your support now needing care you needed as a child. i'm sorry for your pain, royce, and hope there is some improvement in the situation soon

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Thank you. No improvement is likely, I'm afraid. He's 82, is missing one lung and a third of his remaining one thanks to lung cancer, and he still needs chemo treatments. At this point it just a case of enjoying the good days with him, and helping him through the bad. :(