Familystuff
Late autumn day in Gothenburg. Took a walk with mum past my old high school and the Avenue. It gets dark so early. Sister-in-law looked after dad while we were out. Then I made Swedish potato pancakes - Raggmunkar - for dinner, and mum and I watched Jonathan Creek while running and fixing things for dad on and off.
He's ok in the usual sense, that he has some good times and some bad each day. He's been sleeping pretty badly the last week, and thus mum is really tired since she has helped him out. He's been having some hallucinations again, but nothing like two years ago thank god. it's just a bit scary when he wakes you up in the middle of the nigh, adamant that he sees someone else in their bedroom. Also, he's still totally hung up on internet betting, convinced that he's won millions, and that he has some great system that will solve all our financial problems. It's kind of difficult to understand how he just can't drop it, we've all check it out and of course it's nothing, but on the other hand it's good for him to have something to do, to count and plot his systems etc.. mum controls his money so he's not really spending anything real online, it's just a thin line between a slight case of madness and obsession.. oh dad.. then we watch Masterchef and talks cooking with brother and all is back to normal, so weir.. and so weir how fast one accepts kind of crazy stuff as "normal".. I too wish his ideas where correct, but come on.. my dad used to be the most cynical and realistic person ever.. now he's this wishful thinking guy.. argh!. But my god I'm SO happy that he's around and dabbling with his numbers and equations and mathematics, and LIVING and breathing and at HOME. After last years medical issues we didn't know how it would turn out. But god, it's still a shitty situation in so many ways..And at the same time there are all these really nice times we have together..
Lovely tree outside parents' flat:
Tomorrow my sister arrives in town, and we're staying on until Tuesday. We'll see how that works..
He's ok in the usual sense, that he has some good times and some bad each day. He's been sleeping pretty badly the last week, and thus mum is really tired since she has helped him out. He's been having some hallucinations again, but nothing like two years ago thank god. it's just a bit scary when he wakes you up in the middle of the nigh, adamant that he sees someone else in their bedroom. Also, he's still totally hung up on internet betting, convinced that he's won millions, and that he has some great system that will solve all our financial problems. It's kind of difficult to understand how he just can't drop it, we've all check it out and of course it's nothing, but on the other hand it's good for him to have something to do, to count and plot his systems etc.. mum controls his money so he's not really spending anything real online, it's just a thin line between a slight case of madness and obsession.. oh dad.. then we watch Masterchef and talks cooking with brother and all is back to normal, so weir.. and so weir how fast one accepts kind of crazy stuff as "normal".. I too wish his ideas where correct, but come on.. my dad used to be the most cynical and realistic person ever.. now he's this wishful thinking guy.. argh!. But my god I'm SO happy that he's around and dabbling with his numbers and equations and mathematics, and LIVING and breathing and at HOME. After last years medical issues we didn't know how it would turn out. But god, it's still a shitty situation in so many ways..And at the same time there are all these really nice times we have together..
Lovely tree outside parents' flat:
Tomorrow my sister arrives in town, and we're staying on until Tuesday. We'll see how that works..