Respite

This weekend I went away for two days to Montreal and while the trip was wonderful it does make you aware of how tired you actually are. In someways a better rest would be to place my husband in respite for a week and have an uneventful week at home. It seems to me the first little while that you are missing is the hardest. You need to find some way to make those first few hours bearable and I think Skyping might be the answer if the respite home has Internet. If he can see me he thinks I am there. While I was gone his son looked after him but I think it is very difficult for him to see his father in this state and so part of him is in denial. The usual caregiver does not have that luxury.