slowe

Wow, that helps to have someone on "the other end" explain it like that! Intellectually I "know" how he must feel, but a lot of the time, because he doesn't "look" like anything should be wrong with him, I think it's hard for me to remember that he did have a stroke and things will never be the same again.

And I am the MOST unmechanical person in the world and we would have had problems working on a project like this before. The difference is, back then, "I" wouldn't have been involved in it! (~_~)

But things happen, life changes, and you go with the flow!

Sounds lovely!

BTW, when our DD got married 8 years ago, they left the church in a limo, and cruised around for 45 minutes (first time in a limo for both of them). We had the DJ announce the the newly married couple would be there shortly, and had asked that they go ahead and serve themselves from the buffet (which DH and I had prepared). Everyone appreciated that, since it was a 4 pm wedding, and they got to eat before midnight!

I think that's not an uncommon wish, to wish it were all a dream and you were going to wake up in the morning and the stroke never happened. Ah, that it were. But since it IS real, the best we can do is make the most of what we're left with, and just keep on keeping on!

You nailed that one "the wife who takes all the fun out of life." I'm the one to remind him to take his pills, to go to bed because he's falling asleep on the couch, to be "careful", to call him everyday on my lunch hour to see what kind of day he's having, etc.

Am I his mother or his wife?