So I compromise by having a Visiting Angel here with me, paid by insurance, for eight hours each day. There is a regular who comes at nine in the morning and stays until one, leaves and comes back at five for four more hour and then a weekend regular who works the same hours.
They both are very good cooks and put great meals on the table, from food basics I have ordered, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They help with all sorts of light household chores, wash my hair, help me shower,etc. and a lot of the time they just sit quietly, watch TV and let me be.
It takes some of the loneliness away while Bill continues in the rehab center, but I have to know that he may not ever be able to come home so my future is very uncertain, and I can only take one day at a time now. My biggest fear here is that I will die first and he will have no home to come back to. I own the house and did before I knew Bill, and my girls would then be free to sell it as would be their right. Don't know what they will/would do. I would hope they would let him continue to live here and I will tell them that.
Lucie, I am wondering in what ways you find being alone harder now?
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