to refresh, my son had a brain aneurysm in feb. and is paralyzed on the left side, has been in rehab after 3 wks in ICU, now he is becoming abusive and demanding and I need someone to tell me how to handle this, do we give into his demands or do we put our foot down and get tough with him and tell him we aren't going to coddle him and he needs to get over it...
thanks for your input, maybe I didn't explain it right, I live in Il. he lives in fl. his wife and son are his only family down there and he calls her all night long and insists that she come sit with him, she is trying to work take care of all the things at the house, and still spend time with him twice a day, and she isn't getting any sleep because he is calling all the time and how can we get him to not do that, I talk to him on the phone and try to explain this, and we all know it is part of the recovery.
JanPearl,
I hate to say it, but I think if I were in your daughter in laws shoes i'd turn the ringer off on the phone at night--it sounds like he really bombards her --perhaps then he'll "get it" and stop with the phonecalls at night, and yeah i'm sure she's pretty stressed out from all this...no job equals no income, which will equal no place for him to come to eventually. take care, Janet