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Relationships: How do you form and maintain them when ill?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Sep 14, 2023 | Replies (76)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for sharing.
In what ways were you able to share when you were very ill? Was it enough? (Also, how are we defining enough?)
It is good that you are there for the people in your life.
I try to be there for the few people that I love. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail. When I fail, it crushes me. The people in my life are understanding and don't complain, but it bothers me.
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When I couldn’t do anything physically for my friends and family, I made sure that I let them talk about their lives, asked questions that were focused on them and not me. I know my husband was very overwhelmed by the burden of caring for me when I could barely get up to go to the bathroom by myself. I listened to him vent. I tried to imagine what it was like for him to have so much on his shoulders. He knew that was all I could do and he didn’t want to burden me more than I was burdened with the fight for my life.
When I began to get out of bed, I started cooking meals in a crockpot. It was so simple to just throw everything into a pot and let it cook. I had so sit down every few minutes to rest, but I felt good about doing something tangible for my family.