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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
It's been a stressful three weeks. My father called the doctor because he had stabbing pains on one side of his chest. The doctor called the ambulance. It turns out the stabbing pains were caused by shingles. But they did find a slightly irregular heartbeat, so he had to go to hospital to get it checked out.
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It's been a stressful couple of weeks. I've been doing the store on my own, taking care of all the household chores and helping my mother where needed. Plus I visited my father 3-4 times a week. When he gets home I'll have to take care of him, until he gets slowly back to normal. My sister's been a great help with being the contact person for the hospital, but once my father's home I expect most things will be up to me (I don't have a driver's license so she has to take him to any appointments).
I've shortened the hours the store's open, we now open an hour later and close an hour earlier. Partially due to visiting hours at the cardiac ward, but also to give me time to do everything that needs to be done and still have a couple of hours to myself most nights.
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Geeze, Rumple, yes, I can see how that could be stressful.
I'd suggest, regardless of income, that you close the store at least for 3 days each week, until you can sort out who's going to do what. It's not really fair and more importantly, probably not doable, for you to man the store 6days/week, nearly full-time, AND take care of your Dad, full-time, AND clean the house (!) and all that. You're human and you'll burn out pretty quickly.
If you close the store 3days/week, you can sort out domestic chores, do shopping and stuff on the days it's closed.
Trust me, having been through a household member with cardiac recovery, if you try to do all this, including taking care of your mum, and the store, and dad, and all that, by yourself, it'll be a miracle if you make it two weeks. Decide now that something has to give and it's NOT YOU.
And your sister can do more than just drive Dad to appointments. Just sayin'. He's her dad too and your mum is her mum too.
Hitch