Having recently holidayed in Scotland with my 10yr old daughter, visit my dad who is house bound and visiting my mum who was in hospital and had to be put into a home while up there as she is/has Dementia, and my dad is house bound... My mum was put into home 4days before we left to come back home and having visited my mum on the 2nd day where she was really poorly and wouldn't even open her eyes or acknoledge us i was put the unfortunate position of wether we should visit her as she got worse over next 2days and should i let my daughter see her grandma like that... I chose not to go and see her as it was too upsetting..... 3weeks after leaving Scotland[at this point we had accepted that time was up] it turned up that she had CDif and now after a few weeks she has got better and is now back in the home but is still not herself due to the dementia and things are so difficult on the phone sometimes,,, and my dad hasn't seen my mum since July 2nd due to the fact he is housebound and it's so awful.... I feel quite haunted by the fact i didn't go and see her on the last few days and how awful it must be for the 2of them even though mu mum is probably not aware of how long it really has been...... I have been on Martezapine for 3weeks and have now switched to prozac as the mert was making me worse and left me so drowsy and tired.........I have been off work too and i do hope the prozac works for me as i am now to be going back to scot' on 23rd Oct and i want to be able to go swimming with my daughter [as well as visiting of coarse] and am worried that the prozac will prevent me from doing this... HAS ANYONE BEEN SWIMMING while on prozac..
Things sound really tough for you at the moment - really difficult situation with your parents, and I'm sorry that you're having to cope with it all, especially at a distance.
I'm not sure why you asked about swimming on Prozac? - why wouldn't you be able to? I was on fluoxetine for a while (now switched to another AD) and certainly went swimming regularly while taking it.
Hope your holiday goes as well as it can and that you are able to have some fun with your daughter as well.
Hi Peter, it's tough when you are looking after your parents. It's such a loss too already when you have lost your mum to dementia. It sounds like you are beating yourself up about life events you can do little to prevent. There may be small things you can do, like get your daughter to draw/paint cards and post them etc, if she wants to.
It's good you have sought help. I'm on fluoxetine (Prozac), have been on it three months - I've worked while on them and done all the usual stuff. I also went spring board diving (only once) recently and had no problems though my sinuses are hurting!!! Nothing to do with the Prozac tho, just the force of the water, yuk. Anyway, hope you feel better soon.
Take care of yourself.
Jemima
Good to know about the spring board diving as only brave enough to do that this summer after my daughter showed me up/and how easy it was [although it still terrifies m as she not a brilliant swimmerwhen she jumps in the diving pool]. and now i love it.... Still only 2days since the switch to Prozac and still feel extrtemely tired at the mo, but i'm sure and hopeful it's early days yet