So, several months now since I last posted. It’s been a journey.
Rich had to stop those anti-depressants altogether, he’s now on one that agrees with him. He started to have hallucinations, imagining people were in the house. Got very frightening.
At the same time my mum wasn’t well, and ended up in hospital for three weeks. At one time a doctor was preparing me for the possibility of her not making it. She’s back home with us, and apart from an early morning hospital dash a month ago, she is doing well.
Rich was given a tablet to help lengthen the energy times of of his Parkinson’s one. All was going well, until after six weeks, then he stared to get an upset tummy (to put it politely 🤦♀️) After having three weeks of that, he was taken off the new tablets, and now takes an extra Parkinson’s one, and that is helping.
We’ve joined a sports club, and have been part of a mature movers class for the last month. We’re really enjoying it. I’m finding that just having that 45mins concentrating just on myself very therapeutic. The classes have helped Rich as well, as with Parkinson’s, it’s important to move. Last week, we had a gym induction. The treadmill is not for Rich. He doesn’t have the co-ordination to keep up with it, he nearly walked himself off of the end of the conveyor belt 😱 In the new year, we might look into doing the aqua fit class.
My own health took a bit of a dive through all of the medication nightmare. Stress I think being the villain there. Ended up having a chest X-ray as I’d been experiencing pains in my left shoulder, and painful breathing. Also, my asthma inhaler strength has had to be increased. I’m on a high steroid one now, so trying to keep myself a lot calmer than I have been of late. That went out of the window a couple of weeks ago though, as I got unnecessarily stressed about prescriptions possibly not being ready in time, silly me.
I’m trying to incorporate a bit more well being into the day for both Rich and I. That includes turning the telly off early some evenings, and having a game of scrabble with Rich. We both love that game. I beat him of course 🤪 We’ve started a day by day journal that we write in in the evenings. We’ve only just started doing that, and of course I have my knitting. I’m a bit behind with that, but hoping to catch up soon. Rich enjoys doing crossword type puzzles and word puzzles. Hoping to encourage him to pick up a hobby. Before Parkinson’s, he enjoyed woodwork, he’s lost the enthusiasm for that at the moment, so I’m hoping he might take to something like whittling ?? He has started making a spoon, but hasn’t done anything with it for a long while.
Rich and I had an afternoon tea at the Bistro two of my daughters work at. It was lovely. Bought some home with us though as it was very filling.