full-time caregiver - ten years today
It is ten years today since I became full- time caregiver to Ray after he had been in hospital for six weeks and rehabilitation unit for three months. We had been on holidays when he had the stroke on 19th April 1999, followed by another on 10th May 1999 so had actually not been home since 8th April. He was so glad to be home but to tell you the truth I was scared stiff!
When he was finally discharged into my care there was still an endless round of appointments to keep up with, visit to physiotherapists, OTs and other rehabilitation specialists to complete and a whole battery of testing left to do. For the first four months after he came home I also had Dad and Mum here, dear Dad for just four month as he died five days after a bad fall. The fall shattered all the bones in his left leg (he had bone cancer) and he died on 2nd January 2000.
I kept Mum living with us; she was lost without Dad and her Alzheimer
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