When you’re not the one fixing the problem you don’t get to decide how the problem is fixed.

So my little girl was at the vet today. That went about as well as can be expected.

But the person I live with left the medication she was given in the car of the person who took them to and from the vet. As I’m in bed I can’t go and collect it, and they do not want to do so until the morning.

This massively frustrates me as I want to check the medication now, but as I know it doesn’t logically matter I haven’t said anything to them. I know they would go if I asked them to, but I don’t want to be the one to do that. It doesn’t seem fair to make them do something that isn’t that important just because I can’t do it myself.

But if it were up to me I would go and get the medication now. And I think what’s really bothering me is less the problem but more that I cannot fix it the way that I want to.

I can’t help thinking that if I wasn’t disabled I would be able to solve the problem myself. Even more I would have been able to take her to the vet myself, and I wouldn’t have lost the medication so there wouldn’t be a problem to solve. I think this is tired to how useful I feel as a parent to my pets, if I wasn’t disabled I could just be more use to them, show them my love better.

I know logically this isn’t true. And that this isn’t a really big problem, but it’s the little problems that seem to upset me the most.

I just have to keep reminding myself that tomorrow it won’t be a problem anymore.

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