My income was the source of income at home; until April 2012.

My injury was June 2010. I pushed til I couldn't anymore with work, with meds, struggled on auto- pilot, FMLA, etc. and finally lost the battle to the evolution of the symptoms in my nutshell and sig.

My wife has tried to understand, and tried to be there for this, and worked thru some of it. However, my father-in-law is also in the house, and has his own problems - including thinking the world revolves around him, since he is her father, and this used to be his home - we took over years ago when his wife had breast Cancer and passed away over 15 years ago......and his problems center around mini-strokes and debilitating arthritis which he fails to acknowledge and will one day cause an accident from which others will suffer and he also.

She is at her limits, and at times when we have our problems will state - "you know there are two of us in this relationship" - to which my retort , cruel but succinct is " yep, and this one is brain broke" ......if I even give a response other then walking away, crying......

If I don't cry, my rage wins and I will break things, rage filled with no recourse because I was not able to "fix" our world.........

I understand what you are saying, I feel it.......I feel you.



And, of course, there is no Caregiver support from SSA, Medicaid, or any Insurer for our own family members.