I had breakfast by myself with my brother today. It was mellow but very hard to keep a conversation going. I see him enough so that there is not much to report on what's going on with my life on any particular day. I could have told him we are going to Spain next week for a week, but I want to wait for the last minute so he doesn't get stressed out enough to get sick. (This has happened before.) But his world is so restricted, he doesn't have much to talk about, and let's face it, it was always hard to keep a conversation going with him, even when he was "well".
I just finished sending our intenirary to our case manager, friends, and will be sending it to the nursing home too. I made special arrangements to rent a "global" phone in case there is an emergency and I would need to come home. I kind of resent that I have to do this, it would be nice if I could just leave town and totally forget any responsibility, but what the heck, that's life, things could be a lot, lot, worse.
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