Admiration & thanks for carers

Friends, caregivers, wonderous folk, I joined this group because I am one of the fortunate/unfortunate benefecaries of quite a lot of care. I am on the slow road to recovery from a bout of deadly illness, which almost cost me my life & sanity, but I'm still here. I spent over one & a half years in various hospitals around & about Paris, France and I wish to express my admiration & gratitude for the non-professional care-givers who saw me through thick & thin, in various comatose & semicomatose states. And  I wish to raise one prickly point, which I would like to discuss here with you, i.e. please feel free to comment. My prickely point is this: As an ill person I often got very frustrated and I wrongly lashed out at those who were helping me most, and I hope I didn't hurt them. This is Something, I feel was inevitable, if unfair, for I was working from a very helpless & dependant position. And if my dearest friends & family couldn't forgive me for this, who could? They were surely the least deserving but the most understanding, of my badly aimed and controled frustration. If you, as a care giver have had any experience of this, I would like to hear about it. Thank you.
Mike.
I am not going to wrant & wrave & gnash my teeth here, but if you are interested, visit my blog where there is a more complete account of my unfortunate experience, with a minimum of wranting, wraving and gnashing of teeth. Just enough to make it interesting I hope.
Thank you Caregivers on behalf of all the carereceivers like me, we appreciate your love, care & attention, & ask you to tolerate our ocassional lapses into W & W & Gnashing of teeth.

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Smiling, my mother told me to piss off when I woke her for her meds the other evening, she was fine again the next morning.!!!! Mikey thank you for writing this those needing care sometimes do things they would not otherwise if they were well,  and it is not their fault.
 I have been desperately ill too, experiened an NDE, been a professional nurse, and a home carer, have seen life from all perspectives.. I hope your recovery continues Mikey, remember the power of the mind, I have seen it work miracles.

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Zeph, I hope you didn't get POff, when your mother told you to POff. But this said it probably better to get Pdoff than Pdon ? No?

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LOL, have learned not to take it personally, I realise her abilities are not what they were, smiles.
How was your trip and how are you now Mikey?

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Zephyr, Gael, I'm better and better thanks and if you mean my trip to Lourds, it was amazing and wonderful- I was here with my mother and we had a lovely time together, thanks,
Mike