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Name: Citadel
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Ronnie, Mick T & Bill Together!
Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012
Time: 10:33:52 AM
Remote Address: 72.209.24.158
Message ID: 269809
Parent ID: 269780
Thread ID: 269739
Tayla: It sounds to me that you're suffering from "care giver syndrome." I think it's what has been affecting me, given my care giving duties of my father that have become all consuming in the past year plus.
I've by default become my father's full-time caregiver, and it has been extremely difficult. It has also been not only extremely stressful, but it's ironically a solitary existence. For one thing, he hasn't been himself, so I couldn't (and can't) even have normal conversations with him. It also feels extremely isolating. It has been a solitary existence, though I hadn't been able to enjoy solitude, given that I was waiting on him hand and foot without any break (so I couldn't truly be alone, even though I would feel alone). Now he is in the hospital and in critical condition, so as horrible as it is, I can at least sleep again at night, without worrying that he would be dead on the floor or otherwise needing medical services while I was sleeping. At least now he is in good hands in an intermediate care room at the hospital. So, at least I now have parts of the day to myself, which for months on end, I wasn't able to have.
Yet, the constant pressure and stress associated with everything has been mentally exhausting and tormenting. The irony is that when my father was well, he would do what he could to reduce stress for those around him, whereas with me taking care of him of late, it's as if he would purposely make things more stressful for me in particular. I don't think any of it was intentional.
Go figure, and the irony is that my Dad was born the same year as the Glimmer Twins. When I got into the Stones over 20 years ago, my father said that he liked the song "Satisfaction," and remembered it when the single was released (he mentioned that song even before I knew it when I was first getting into the Stones in the summer of '91). Yet, despite my having played their music in his presence in subsequent years, he never got into the Stones' music. Sometimes, he would tell me to shut it off, as he got irritated by it! I would then inform him that they are HIS age, and that it was of his generation! But he never cared. He could have enjoyed the Stones from the beginning if he wanted to, but he just did not get into them, despite my efforts.
So, good luck and hang in there.
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