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Nov. 12th, 2019 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsI've been to Costco today and amazingly came out without buying anything apart from the cat litter we went in for. I was tempted by a giant light-up snowman but it was a little out of my price range. If only I had a spare £100.
But, I did buy my first sparkle deer of the year! Also, a hippo tree ornament that's so ugly it had to come home with us. see.
From Costco we went to James' first counselling session -- it turned out the phone call last week was only to schedule and get things started. The office is in a business centre which is shared by lots of different offices so I got to sit in the shared kitchen and watch tv while James had his session. It looks like it's going to be good for him. There's a lot going on with him, stuff tied to his condition and how its getting worse plus the job he does, the melting point of the bad day last week being a call where someone had breathing difficulties like mam. These sessions are arranged by his work and the results fed back to them, so that should help too.
Before going in I told him to ensure he talked about him, and not the things going on with my Inlaws. Because yeah, the do affect him, but that's only a part and he needed to talk about his own issues. My MiL ties into that a lot, too. I think my in-laws forget that he's not the same young man that left home so long ago and now has a lot of physical issues plus my MiL does tend to bring every conversation back to my SIL and her problems. And she showed that clearly by phoning when we were driving home. We'd literally left five minutes before and had just started talking about things that had been said. She did say sorry and that she'd forgotten he was there. Asked how it was gone, then said, did you tell them everything that was going on with A -- A being our nephew who's in foster care. I was proud of James as he said that he'd briefly mentioned it, but the sessions are about his problems, not other people's. She agreed with that, and then started to talk about how my SiL's partner may not go home permanently tomorrow as planned and just, sigh. I love her, but just once I'd love it if she concentrated on James only.
But, I did buy my first sparkle deer of the year! Also, a hippo tree ornament that's so ugly it had to come home with us. see.
From Costco we went to James' first counselling session -- it turned out the phone call last week was only to schedule and get things started. The office is in a business centre which is shared by lots of different offices so I got to sit in the shared kitchen and watch tv while James had his session. It looks like it's going to be good for him. There's a lot going on with him, stuff tied to his condition and how its getting worse plus the job he does, the melting point of the bad day last week being a call where someone had breathing difficulties like mam. These sessions are arranged by his work and the results fed back to them, so that should help too.
Before going in I told him to ensure he talked about him, and not the things going on with my Inlaws. Because yeah, the do affect him, but that's only a part and he needed to talk about his own issues. My MiL ties into that a lot, too. I think my in-laws forget that he's not the same young man that left home so long ago and now has a lot of physical issues plus my MiL does tend to bring every conversation back to my SIL and her problems. And she showed that clearly by phoning when we were driving home. We'd literally left five minutes before and had just started talking about things that had been said. She did say sorry and that she'd forgotten he was there. Asked how it was gone, then said, did you tell them everything that was going on with A -- A being our nephew who's in foster care. I was proud of James as he said that he'd briefly mentioned it, but the sessions are about his problems, not other people's. She agreed with that, and then started to talk about how my SiL's partner may not go home permanently tomorrow as planned and just, sigh. I love her, but just once I'd love it if she concentrated on James only.
