Bad Days

John has been having quite a lot of bad days lately. The postural hypotension makes him feel dizzy, and the hot weather makes it worse and it is worse in the mornings as well.

A typical day at the moments:

I get up about 6:30 and get ready for work, 7am I start calling the rest of the family to get up, 7:10am children are up and getting ready for school, 7:45am I check John is okay, 7:50am John staggers down stairs and collapses on the sofa, just as I leave for work.

Some days I get back from work at about 6pm and he is still collapsed on the sofa (a really bad day), other days he tells me he has been upright since about lunch time and he may even have done some jobs round the house (hurrah).

Anyone who lives with someone with depression will tell you that the above scenario also applies to a bad day with depression, so John is doubly doomed, or is that me who is doubly doomed??? Although being dizzy most of the time would make most people feel depressed anyway.

And if his back is playing up obviously that will also see him horizontal for a day.

Still on the positive side he does have some good days still where he will be up and moving by about 10am, but even a short walk (e.g. round the supermarket) will leave him needing to sit down to recover. You have to make the most of the good days and hope there are more of them than bad days.