WonderdogPhone call with Mum in Adelaide today - just Mum, Dad was asleep.
It was one of Dad’s bad days. He had an appointment with the cardiologist this morning to check his pacemaker, and so he was agitated yesterday, and “didn’t sleep a wink” last night.
Mum told me the Uber driver commented on the way home, “You wait for half an hour, see them for five minutes, pay them two hundred dollars, and that’s it!”
Well, yes. But I’m very grateful that the pacemaker is doing what it’s supposed to.
But for Mum - it’s exhausting. When Dad is okay, he just gets a bit confused about things. But when he’s anxious about his routine being changed, and this week has had three appointments to break his routine - he’s not so happy. She says he doesn’t intend to be any trouble. But I can hear the strain it’s causing her.
I imagine it must be like being a widow, while your husband is still living with you.