Conversations with my husband, yes, he really says stuff like this, and my various mishaps

As usual, yesterday was a stellar day 😂😂😂.

I have been trying to get my husband to go back to the doctor since he finished his meds as he is still coughing. He has refused, so yet another point of contention between us and I am trying to end the points of contention. So yesterday on the way to my doctor, he is coughing up a lung, again 🙄.

When we get to my doctors office, I tell him to take the car, go over to the instant care, and seea doctor before your lung is sitting outside your body. Besides there are no magazines to read due to Covid, the tv is off to to Covid, my doctor is running behind due to overbooking as usual, and we might as well kill two birds with one stone.

He agrees.

I go see my doctor, won’t see him again. 😂. Husband goes to instant care doctor. When we are in the car I ask husband, who is still coughing up a lung, what the doc said. Husband says “I looked at your old medical records. You were really sick, you could have died. And, you still have pneumonia.” (I am right again, just saying. I’ve taken care of him again even though he’s been horrific to me, just saying.)

The doctor gives him different medication and tells him to come back in two weeks to make sure the pneumonia is gone. Remember, we are in the car when we are talking and I turn to him and say “why is it I keep saving your life, making sure you are ok and you won’t even call the paramedics for me.”

And he says “because I care less for you than I did the dog. You are right. I did not call the paramedics-and would not call them no matter how sick you got and I would have let you lie there till you died and not called the paramedics”.

😳

Alrighty then.

I have a plan. I am sticking to it. But I am mulling over my options. And I am firing my ortho surgeon who I’ve seen for 20 plus years and I am firing my primary care doctor who just told me I have to put up with my jerk of a husband and I am on the way to being done with putting up with my jerk of my husband.

I have a freaking plan!!! 🤬
 
Is your plan legal?

Aneeda, don't try to save him anymore. Doing so makes you the crazy one. You're not the crazy one.
I don't know what else to say. Maybe he'll drop dead soon.
Well, I agree. That’s what got me “in trouble” with my docs I was trying to tell them both what was going on and how he would not call 911 and they just wanted me to shut up amd go away. So I am “firing“ them both. I PAY them to listen.

But I got to work so i needed surgery for my useless leg and now it’s got to heal but, yes, my plan is legal.
 
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You're right to fire your docs. What kind of doctor hears about abuse and opts to ignore it?

Isn't there an Aging organization in your area that could be of help?
 
Am with katlupe on get away from him,, as quick as you can.

That is elder abuse.
Is there a woman's shelter you can get to?
No but I’ll be safe at the apartment, two more weeks till there. Seriously, I saw he was getting worst and started my plan. It will take a while, but I will be safe. He is not crazy enough to want to go to jail, yet, but what he said, and he said it so calmly; like he was waiting for a spider he stepped on to die, that bother me a great deal.

And since Bella has been gone he's started sneaking up on me unexpectedly again. Other little stuff he has not pulled in a while. Got to get another dog to “warn“ me when he is coming.
 
You're right to fire your docs. What kind of doctor hears about abuse and opts to ignore it?

Isn't there an Aging organization in your area that could be of help?
I am doing things carefully, step by step, so he agrees to me leaving. It will take a year or more. Remember I have two disabled sons, I have to be cautious. He's got to want me to leave.
 
I also think I will get one of the life line things for safety. I agree, I think my safety is comprised now. The docs wanted me to get a bracelet for the Addison’s disease. I am going to tell him they now want me to get the life line thing so if I am walking and have an issue they can find me.

I have to be careful. He has crossed a line. He really is mentally ill and I asked him why he would feel that way about me and he just stared straight away and said he didn’t know. And I told him will he now go get therapy since I’m less than a dog is to him and he said no.
 
Try not to talk with him about anything. Don't even ask what he wants for lunch. Just make it.
He makes his own food and that’s the apartment plan. I told him when we get moved his gets the bigger spaces and I just won’t bother him at all and their be no work for him to do as it is small enough for me to care for without help. I am being very accommodating

When he would not get me anything to eat this time I just said that’s ok I am not hungry. And he wanted to bring take out home, I said ok. Then, one of his tricks, he brings take home for me that I don’t like, I just smile and say really that’s ok I am not hungry.

It like I am trapped in one of those scary movies where the monster is trying to get you to trip up. 🤦🏻‍♀️
 
But once he’s well and doesn’t have pneumonia his manner may improve back to his “normal”. The illness may be the trigger for this new somewhat extreme behavior. Don’t you think? We are all awful when we don’t feel well. But I have no choice but to do what I am doing. As I have no money.
 
Can you rig up a cord with something that rattles to wake you up if he comes in to harm you?;)
I am not sleeping much right now. He works nights so he has to be at his desk the computer tracks when he leaves so no worries there, but I am going to see about this 3 year old dog. It’s important he does not know he’s made me nervous.

Plus when I got in the car yesterday I put my arm down on the console, which was hot, and when I pulled my arm up I got a huge skin tear. This lets me go to instant care today and I can ask that doc about resources or phone numbers for me. I mean, this will pass I am sure, he never stays in one mood very long.
 
Do you have a recording device? On your phone? If not, they’re inexpensive. Buy one and surreptitiously record his conversations. If your doctor heard his death wish for you, you’d get support. If it’s not legal in your state, big deal, do it anyway.
 


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