When they're ill......

[TheOrigRights]

It's hard.
He's 12 so OK to leave alone for short periods.
I had important errands to run - one to collect a prescription that I need filled by tomorrow, and to collect the Click and Collect groceries.
I'm already fitting this around my job.

For complicated reasons I had to collect the actual paper presciption rather than it being done online. This is a 20 mins drive.

I thought DS would be OK. He's got an ear infection. He was in bed.
He called me distressed on my way back to collect the groceries. I think he might have been testing me.

So I went straight home, asked a neighbour to sit with him so I could drive to town and get the food.

I have told a couple of friends that DS is unwell, and I know it's totally self absorbed and unreasonable to expect anything else, but it just makes me sad that no one ever thinks to ask if I need any practical support.

I would so dearly love to go for a swim.

It's OK, I'm just having a pity party.

It's really normal to feel unsupported, you are! Your neighbour was kind sitting with him, perhaps she could help out for the odd occasion. I wish you well OP, I know it's lonely.

Thank you. Yes, she's lovely. We've been neighbours for years and water each others plants when we're away, have little chats if we see each other and know we can ask each other favours.
I do have baby sitters on hand, but I wouldn't ask them to mind him when he was unwell, and he's getting a bit old for sitters now anyway.

Touch wood he seems to have turned a corner this evening.

I hope so, illness can be isolating to begin with. This heat exacerbates everything, even though it's lovely. Hope you both manage to have a better day tomorrow.