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@mommacandy Like I wrote I've been thinking about you. The grief is so overwhelming as you describe it. I can sure understand how very sad you are with all that you described. I didn't realize that he lived in your house too and that sounds even more difficult. The loss is present in your life in every waking moment.
I don't know how you managed to pull together a Thanksgiving dinner. It's no wonder you slept through so much of it because Thanksgiving is exhausting. I can recall putting together many Thanksgiving dinners where I prepared and cooked for days and feeling utterly exhausted after it's all over.
Do you think it's time to allow others to take care of you? How about that deep clean that was offered by a friend? You've had such a trying year with your own diagnoses, chemotherapy, and surgeries as well as for your friend that it's no wonder you haven't been able to do much in the past year. What would you tell your best friend who you recently lost if he was still here and in your situation? Would he ask you to you invite someone to help you with all of this?
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he didn't live with us full time until prob the last year...his cats pretty much overwintered by themselves with someone going to check on them etc a couple times a week even if it wasn't us last year.. we would occasionally spend the night there but it was like he lost interest in staying there esp after his chickens were killed by the bear when it literally tore the coop apart. other than the time he was getting radiation during the times of a couple of my surgeries i literally had been with him pretty much 24-7 at either his place or mine for the last 15 months.. honestly i was with him at times more than i was my husband...but then when it became clear he wasn't going to recover we brought his cats here, half to my house and half to my daughter's. (he had 8 cats) as well as essentially moved him into my daughter's old room.
my husband won't allow me to accept the deep clean, (at least not yet), because tbh our house looks like a hoarder house and he said its pointless because...we have SOOOO much stuff here, its like how in the world could they clean? Don't get me wrong its a VERY slow declutter working toward a MASSIVE yard sale next spring.. we have an entire wall of our basement stacked with boxes and totes already of stuff to sell...and we've not even BEGUN to go through any room but the kitchen (not to mention all the bags/boxes of stuff we've taken to the ministry we run) ...don't get me wrong there's a few of his things in the stack that i've managed to get through, but there's soooo much of his that will need to be listed in reenactment groups etc.. but in the meantime.... yea its really hard..
my boys say they'll be over Sun to put up my outside lights...i had talked to another girl about helping with just cleaning my kitchen when my hubby wasn't home, again...hasn't showed when she said she would...she went to school with my youngest so she's one i trust...last time i had anyone in to clean on a regular basis i hate to think how much she skimmed from us so haven't had anyone in the past 4 years.......still waiting on the plumber who was supposed to have been here a couple different times to show up, etc i HATE depending on other people because they so rarely show up when they say they will...he was supposed to have been here today...nope...promised he'd be here first thing in the morning, we'll see if he shows up lol...
THEN today got a call from the surgeon's office, they are pushing my next surgery from next week til the 19th so i have ANOTHER week with this monster on my face...yes i know, they want to give it the best chance for the graft to grow vessels etc on its own before they remove the exterior blood connection so it takes properly but i really don't like going out in public like this...its embarrassing not to mention painful in the cold...
as to what would he say? well he'd prob fuss at me for trying to do too much, he'd be trying to help even if he wasn't able, an prob fussing with my hubby...i spent a HUGE amount of time keeping peace between the two alphas which in itself was highly stressful on me.
its just really hard...i find myself dozing during the day, trying to get motivated to do something besides reading or napping is at times almost impossible...i have a LOT i WANT to do...but getting motivated to do it? not happening....