Neither Mom nor Dad are well but Dad has serious heart issues. Most of the time when I call(for the past few weeks) I only talk to Mom because Dad is asleep. Mom has a tendency these days to talk in circles and she's never had a filter(that I can recall)so the conversations are not easy or pleasant.
Been planning a visit to see them because I want to see Dad before he passes away. He is in a critical time period following a heart attack and discovering his heart is extremely weak. And I would love to go up north to help out with chores, grocery shopping, anything they need and of course to see them.
Tonight on the phone before I brought it up, Mom said, "I hope you don't come up here because I don't need company. I just need peace and quiet". It did not matter that I want to help them with the exhausting chores Mom finds herself doing now that Dad cannot help her. It did not matter that I want to see her and Dad. She let me know she does not sleep as well when I am there. Her contradictory statements about Dad did not make a bad conversation better.
Yours truly has been under the weather a bit the past few days and depressed on top of that. It happens. Not seeking sympathy, just providing a context for tonight's call.
Think I will go grocery shopping.
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