this weekend has been a nightmare
yes i am after the sympathy vote this time...i openly admit....
My husband has been in hospital. He is home now.
He was just walking back to the car from playing golf, and he felt his left leg buckle under him- and he was unable to walk. He has (they think at the moment) ruptured his tendons (achilles???) just behind his knee on around his calf muscle.
so he has his leg in plaster,crutches...and i am having a sample of what some of you have to do 24/7....you don't realise how much you do depends on standing up...or sitting up upright....both he cannot do unaided as he has to have his leg raised when sitting- so is not really sat up....
so he's miserable too....and as i expected...the boys are not able to do the 'poor dad' routine...and i am having to 'barricade' him into a corner of the lounge- so that one of them doesn't touch his leg.
so fun and games here.
he has to go back next week...may need full leg cast....may need operation.
he had this week of to fit a new bathroom and he is gutted at the moment- very depressed as he has been told he will be unable to do much for about 7 weeks.
he cannot look ahead- he cannot see getting better...he is very irritable. and i am now having to do all the things that he would do around the house....and i will never think again that he does f all as now i am realising how much i need his help with the boys.
then to finish off the weekend.... our new gas heating broke down....which i then 'fixed'...the water pressure was wrong....and touch wood so far it appears to be ok..... (we know what my dabbling with DIY usually leads to!)
then the electric sockets in the kitchen where the washer,tumble and freezer are plugged into blew.... so now have them pulled out from under the worktop so they can be plugged in to other sockets....so given that we have a narrow 'galley' kitchen.....and a man on crutches....we now also have 3 appliances sticking out 2 ft into the walkway....leaving a tiny gap that he has to get sideways through.
(almost funny....???? almost LOL!)
Then...worst of all...ds3 got hit by a firework last night. he was NOT injured. his coat has a huge hole burnt out of it...and my coat got burnt as i ripped his off of him. he was hysterical /shocked for an hour or so...but today WANTED to take the jacket to school to 'show'.
so...as i forced ds3 out to see the bloody fireworks that he had kept on about ...my dh had planned to do them saturday- then ended up in hosptal...so we postponed...ofcourse ...in true asd manner....ds3 did not adapt well to this...so my BIL offered to light some of them....then ofcourse as soon as the first one went off...ds3 ran indoors to hide.
i then lost my temper...i'd had enough by then...and forced him outside...angrily saying things like "YOU wanted the fireworks...YOU ARE NOT going indors....your uncle has SPECIALLY come here to do this for YOU"....and i covered his ears...held him tight...and after a couple more he calmed down....BUT...then as we were watching one go up...a bit of it shot out at grass level...and came all 90ft of our garden...ds3 must have seen it first as he started pulling away...and i pulled him back thinking at that moment he was trying to run away again....which ofcourse he was....he had seen the firework coming... so it hit into his coat.....and he started screaming "HOT! HOT!"... i felt it on me...and raelsied what had happened...pulled his coat off....his football shirt underneath had been scrorched...but NOT a mark on his skin!!!
Then as the hysteria/shock took over he started shouting at me that it was MY fault- as i had kept holding him...didn't let him run away from it. which ofcourse was true...though obviously not intentional...but last night all i kept thinking was 2 ft higher and it would have been his face....and to think that he belives it was MY fault...which i know it wasn't....just sickens me.
but he is ok....it wsn't his face....and we have all learnt alot. ds1 particularily as he has been a bit too 'interested' in fire etc recently...and this incident frightened him .