We knew it was bound to happen in the near future, but it came suddenly, and hard. I live with him in his house; yesterday he told me he had an appointment in town. I didn't go with him because I had not yet slept, and besides, what do I have to do at an appointment for him?
Well, he didn't come home all night, so in the morning I called the police to file a missing person's report on him. By the time officers came to the house to take a statement and all info, he had been found; a good number of towns over with the car wrecked.
They brought him home, police officers stayed with us until the GP arrived to check him over again (he had been checked by EMTs at the site already), and everything seemed just fine apart from high blood pressure and elevated heart rate. Which of course is pretty logical after such an event.
Now I had noticed now and then that he was forgetting things, or confusing things, and due to his age (76 coming July) he's unsteady on his feet because the knees are beginning to go so he fell sometimes. However, this evening, I had a pretty intense yes-no discussion with him because he kept insisting our house was not our address but a rented house somewhere waaaaay else. We have lived in this house, which was bought and is paid off by now, for over 35 years. Yet he kept stubbornly insisting it is not our address but a rented house someplace else from where we have to go to 'our' house to clean it out so we can move out from it before we're evicted. He also kept asking what time he has to bring me to the airport tomorrow, and every time I'm telling him I don't have to go there and he can't even do it because he doesn't have a car anymore and his license, as the police told me, had expired July last year already and is now completely revoked.
I know I have not been very active around here lately, but it will become even less for a decent while because I'm gonna have to deal with this; he's going to need to be under constant supervision and care, which I cannot provide since my own health is so bad I can hardly get around myself. So I'm gonna have to arrange a bunch of stuff and everything, on top of me being dead on my feet at the moment because I have not yet slept since yesterday and I hardly dare to.
So yeah, I will possibly be checking in from time to time because I will be badly needing the distraction, but mostly, well, see y'all on the flip side for now. Also, I'm not asking for pity or help or anything, just wanting to let people who follow me here know what's going on.
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