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I am a very sad caregiver

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I am so sorry to hear that you are in this situation. I feel similar--empty inside and numb. We used to travel frequently and eat out two or three times a week. Then four years ago my husband fell from effects of medicine he was taking for restless legs and suffered a brain bleed. Both our lives ended that day. Most of our friends have dropped us because it's such a production to get us in the car to go anywhere and just spending time with us must be a real downer wondering if they are goin to end up like us. The other couple has to drive all the time. My husband also has Afib and often sleeps 18 hours a day. He wants the lights off and no noise. He had Merkle cell carcinoma on his ear lobe two years ago and the radiation destroyed what was left of his hearing (of course they don't tell you about that possibility before the treatments.) When he's awake we can't even converse because he can't hear me. I'm looking forward to another endless weekend. We have NO family at all except my husband's cousins who live 200 miles away. Several of our friends the same age as we are are going on European river cruises, trips to Portugal, African safaris or trips to Australia and here we sit.

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Everything you are going through we are also. Not what we expected retirement to be like.wife has gastroperesis, glomus tumors, parkinsons ,diabetes and losing all of her teeth on account of lack of correct food. Also lost 70 lbs. I know this is hard to believe but it is the truth. Forgot several anxiety. Tom