Well, I cannot sleep. I am in worrier/warrior mode. My husband has returned from his travels and tested positive for Covid-19. And I...

I then had a few years break from therapy as I needed time to try out and work on the coping strategies I had discovered during the...

I have just had a flashback of thoughts from yesteryear. Something my Mum and I always thought happened but we were never certain. His...

I know I write about a lot of heavy stuff relating to my dad and I do that because I am trying to let it go. I have worked hard in...

Warning: This post may be too much information for some of you. It involves diarrhoea, a lot of diarrhoea. So I have not posted much...

I have been thinking about the very special bond my Mum and I had. I know it was a more intense closer bond as we had often been through...

I haven't had a good day today. Friends have been in touch, seeing how I am but I have kept my responses light and cheery. I do not want...

Not just a pet hate but a real true hate. I hate it when I am absolutely shattered as I have had very little sleep and all I want to do...

Just had to unceremoniously heave dad back onto his bed! He needed the toilet at 4am. A weird time for his toileting but probably caused...

There I thought my dad was running out of puff and so the flashes of rage would explode less often and eventually die out...I was wrong....

Well, here goes - just over two weeks on my own with him. I am trying my best to squash the dread and despair of the forthcoming...

As I have mentioned previously, Christmas is a difficult time of year for me but hey ho, it is almost here again. I try and keep all the...

I don't know, maybe it is because it is the season of goodwill but I have been trying to remember good times I had with my dad. It is...

My dad has always been a writer. He wrote and sold articles to newspapers, he wrote sermons for his congregation and for a wider audience...

...before I fell over! I was explaining this is his last free week of carers' assistance. I reminded him that the agreement was four free...

I have been doing okay lately as I have not had much to do with dad, thank goodness. I wait for his carer to arrive at 9am before I go in...

Some days I feel uneasy in this world. I feel the unease in my body, mind and soul. I do not know why it happens, it just does. I wake up...

So what's been happening? Well, we have continued as per usual with him having times of frustration about carers and not wanting or...

Ifindpeopledraining...(thanks space bar - you made me smile on a non-smiley type of day.) I find people draining. No offence, I do not...

Throughout my life, every now and again, I wake up in the early hours of the morning and I am so lucid, I could write a Maths exam. (I...