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I've never posted in one of these threads, but they look like they're actually useful. I'm trying to see a way forward on something, comments appreciated.
Kind of had it all at the start of the year. I used to look after a very old man with advanced dementia in the Europe, I worked for almost a year without a day off (which was a big mistake) and one day a new manager came in and decided he needed a "new perspective" and I was removed.
A week after I left, my charge never walked again, not long after this he would ask where I went, then he gave up on life, entered palliative care and died a couple months later. I still remember on the last day I saw him, he noticed I was packing my bags and got very upset, I had to calm him down by saying I was only going away I feel terrible about it and every day wonder how things would have been if I had just changed any tiny number of factors that resulted in that meeting, I feel like I caused a lot of unnecessary pain to the old man. I stopped going to the gym, stopped seeing my friends and it seems stopped anything that can help my life. It didn't help either the seperation from that placement also uprooted me from my entire social life in that area. It's embarrassing almost to talk to people because things were on the up and up, now I just don't know.
Has anybody else had shit like this they've overcome?
It seems contrived to even ask, I'm sure people who have had their limbs blown off would laugh at something like this.
