I'm so glad we moved Mom from IL to AL two months ago! Today I slipped and turned my ankle in the wet grass. Snap! Its broken in two places and I'll be in a cast for weeks - can't walk, can't drive.
Its something to consider for all caregivers - what happens to your parent if they are living with you, dependent on you and you get sick or hurt? I'm just so relieved that Mom will be ok without me for the next month, that competent people will take care of her because I won't be able to get there to see her for quite a while.
And take good care of yourself, please!
When I have had a bad medical day, I have been surprised how mom tries to turn down the requests for service. Unfortunately it does not last that long enough and we are back to the old ways too soon.
This will eventually be a good story for y'all to look back at and laugh - eventually, I said.
It's definitely an issue when someone is depending on you to be available all the time and you get hurt or sick. I have had to go to my mother's and do "my chores" on several occasions when I'd have preferred to be home in bed nursing my cold or whatever. My problem is always that I'm not absolutely incapacitated, but just too under the weather to do my own shopping and cleaning and before I even recover, I'm stuck doing Mom's. Sure wish there was a better alternative to that!