Stick a fork in me...
Cuz I am D O N E!
Or, at least the four-day weekend from HELL is done. Four days of caring for an invalid three times a day is FINISHED. "Exhausted" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Sure, it wasn't a huge number of hours each day. But this is a "total care" patient. She contracted meningitis when she was nine months old. This means that all brain growth stopped at that point. She can't do anything for herself. She's a 29-year-old with the mind of an infant. She can't talk, but has a vocabulary of sounds that she uses to express different moods and feelings. She's a sweet girl - but exhausting to care for.
I usually care for her two evenings a week, then the last weekend of the month. (Three times a day on that weekend.) Her other caregiver asked for Thursday and Friday off so I got landed with FOUR DAYS of doing what usually takes two people in different shifts.
Thankfully, the girl lives (with her parents) less than a mile from my house so I was able to come home between shifts. It's just that having to be there for breakfast, lunch, and dinner breaks the day up into several very small pieces. LOL It seems like I've been at that house more than I have my own for the last four days.
I can honestly say that I've never looked forward to a Monday more in my entire life. One three-hour shift at a different house is all I have tomorrow. Easy day. I can't wait.
In other news, the boys came home from their grandparents' today. They had a good time, but were glad to be home. (LOL And they're not looking forward to Monday after having the past week off from school.
During my longest break from work today (a whole 3.5 hours), we snuggled up on my bed to watch Star Trek. I had already told them how much I enjoyed it and they were really looking forward to it. LMAO Five minutes into the movie and Older Son had to tackle me and tell me that he loved me because I "like cool scifi movies instead of dumb, boring chick flicks."
Younger Son hasn't been the Trekkie that Older Son has been becoming, so some of the points of the movie didn't have as much impact on him, but he enjoyed the movie anyway. I'll make a Trekkie out of him yet!
Or, at least the four-day weekend from HELL is done. Four days of caring for an invalid three times a day is FINISHED. "Exhausted" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Sure, it wasn't a huge number of hours each day. But this is a "total care" patient. She contracted meningitis when she was nine months old. This means that all brain growth stopped at that point. She can't do anything for herself. She's a 29-year-old with the mind of an infant. She can't talk, but has a vocabulary of sounds that she uses to express different moods and feelings. She's a sweet girl - but exhausting to care for.
I usually care for her two evenings a week, then the last weekend of the month. (Three times a day on that weekend.) Her other caregiver asked for Thursday and Friday off so I got landed with FOUR DAYS of doing what usually takes two people in different shifts.
Thankfully, the girl lives (with her parents) less than a mile from my house so I was able to come home between shifts. It's just that having to be there for breakfast, lunch, and dinner breaks the day up into several very small pieces. LOL It seems like I've been at that house more than I have my own for the last four days.
I can honestly say that I've never looked forward to a Monday more in my entire life. One three-hour shift at a different house is all I have tomorrow. Easy day. I can't wait.
In other news, the boys came home from their grandparents' today. They had a good time, but were glad to be home. (LOL And they're not looking forward to Monday after having the past week off from school.
During my longest break from work today (a whole 3.5 hours), we snuggled up on my bed to watch Star Trek. I had already told them how much I enjoyed it and they were really looking forward to it. LMAO Five minutes into the movie and Older Son had to tackle me and tell me that he loved me because I "like cool scifi movies instead of dumb, boring chick flicks."
Younger Son hasn't been the Trekkie that Older Son has been becoming, so some of the points of the movie didn't have as much impact on him, but he enjoyed the movie anyway. I'll make a Trekkie out of him yet!