Choose good friends and keep your family close.

CAREGIVER NOTE:
After consulting with his dr (again) we’ve decided to make another change to his nighttime meds. Fingers crossed this will help as he hasn’t had a full night’s uninterrupted sleep in quite a few nights now. The cycle hasn’t reverted back to a full night’s sleep. Fingers crossed the change will help and in a hurry. I’m grateful she called last night to discuss the meds issue — especially since it was her day off and she’d worked late the evening before. We’re REALLY going to miss her as she’s retiring at the end of the year… we’ll meet her replacement next month when he goes in for his appointment.

Yesterday he got pretty upset with himself after spilling his drink. Accidents happen and we never make a big deal over them. It’s generally, just an oops and let’s get that cleaned up and get back to the regular stuff. It took him nearly 30 minutes to get over the spill and causing what he called “trouble.” It really wasn’t a big deal and I got to thinking afterwards that maybe that was something he “was missing.” Maybe previously someone has made a big deal of a spill while he was in rehab…. and he wanted the “fireworks” that had come with it (lots of juicy connection and recognition – although not of the good kind). That just doesn’t happen here. It’s done and over with and the mess cleaned up and we move on to the next thing.

POSITIVES:
Zingers and there were a couple of good ones
conversations with family members about different current topics
Asked for help when it was needed