My Aunt's from Los Angeles are in town for the next week and yesterday I took off to spend the day with them. Unfortunately my MS had other thought. When I woke up and got out of bed I knew I was in trouble. The fatigue was horrible and the pain in my legs was a 14 on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the worst. I took every medication I could safely take but no relief arrived. When I picked them up at their hotel it was painfully obvious I was in bad shape. I was having trouble walking, and as I was walking in front of them I could hear them commenting on my problems.
So we went to get their rental car, which wasn't ready and wouldn't be for another hour and forty-five minutes. So I took them to the cemetery to visit the gravesite of their brother and my mother. After that they asked me to take them back to their hotel so they could rest, mind you we had only been gone for a hour and a half, and they would call my nephew to come pick them up.
There were obviously being nice and taking not that I was not doing well at all. But I felt terrible that I couldn't spend more time with them. I also felt guilty. I know they understood but I still felt bad about it.
I will see them throughout the weekend but it still doesn't make me feel any better about yesterday.
How do you handle that type of situation? I'm lucky in that I didn't have to bow out they did that for me but I still had to cut our visit to two hours.
Feeling guilty and bad.
So we went to get their rental car, which wasn't ready and wouldn't be for another hour and forty-five minutes. So I took them to the cemetery to visit the gravesite of their brother and my mother. After that they asked me to take them back to their hotel so they could rest, mind you we had only been gone for a hour and a half, and they would call my nephew to come pick them up.
There were obviously being nice and taking not that I was not doing well at all. But I felt terrible that I couldn't spend more time with them. I also felt guilty. I know they understood but I still felt bad about it.
I will see them throughout the weekend but it still doesn't make me feel any better about yesterday.
How do you handle that type of situation? I'm lucky in that I didn't have to bow out they did that for me but I still had to cut our visit to two hours.
Feeling guilty and bad.
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