River: rough water

[mdlbear]

I keep forgetting how big a bite hospital visits take out of the day. You start out the weekend thinking it's a chance to get a few things done, with nothing on the calendar. Two or three visits each day, plus a couple of hours running errands the other person would normally have run during the week, and you're sitting around Monday night staring at a pile of dirty dishes and wondering what hit you.

It evidently takes a toll in emotional and physical energy, too. The emotional part, especially, is something I simply don't have a good handle on yet -- I don't know how to think about it.

I'm coping better than I was two months ago, but it's still rough water.