Caregivers and Stress

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Rockinonahigh

Boy did I ever mess up tonight, Since I have been down with both my knees being so bad and my back issues as well just today I finely couldn't even stand up to fix a simple bowl of oatmeal this morning so I ended up having a couple pieces of left over fried chicken for breakfast. I tried to fix dinner and still couldn't do it with the pain I am dealing with so I called my son to bring home some kind of take out for dinner. Any way before he went to bed I ask him to make a pot of coffee being he brought a fresh can of French silk coffee.
The last I made coffee was last Sunday and haven't cleaned pot since so it really needed a washing out first. He said "why haven't you cleaned the pot out it's nasty" then proceeded to dump the entire pot upside down in the sink, I mean the whole contraption. At that point I just sizzled with my Aries temper then tore everything out of the dish washer threw it on the counter or where ever it landed then stuck the taken apart pot and all the dirty dishes in then turned it on. I have been doing the laundry, still fixing meals plus doing all else I could do to the point I couldn't do any more, I knew I was over doing it but things needed to be done. The crap about the coffee pot just hit me wrong.
My son has gone to bed before I could appologise for being stupid, so I wrote him a note saying I was sorry incase I didn't get up before he left to say before he left. I know we will get past this cause we never or rarely have something like this come up...this is his first taste of being a care giver even in the smallest way and my first ever needing anyone to be one for me, it is a hard adjustment for me cause I always have been able to do it myself.

Why didn't he just clean the pot? It sounds like you have a lot going on right now. Hope you feel better soon.