Much bickering, but seems healthy physically.

Today there were quite a few bickering and arguments between my parents and sometimes myself.  However, some times of relative peace too.  So both of them have some degree of energy and health.

Dad's chemo is going uneventfully.

Below is mainly just rambling on on emotional health.  Physical health of them both is pretty much unchanged.


Mom feels that everyone blames her for not feeding Dad.  (She also feels, at least in past, guilty herself.)  So she, in anger, said that Dad is a grown man and should feed himself.
Dad heard clearly, and has recently been feeding himself minimally.  Plain bread, bread with peanut butter.  I have not seen yet recently, but in distant past he was willing to cook TV dinners for self.

Mom bitter and mad at nearly everyone, it seems.
She is frustrated and mad at her condition of forgetting a lot of things.

She is mad people have not visited in past (in her memory) except when they want something (in her opinion, even though there is weak evidence that they wanted anything).

She is mad enough that she does not want them visiting anymore.

She is mad that relations are not helping, but also she does not want them to come, or she feels they come under duress, or because they want something.
She is very easily rubbed the wrong way, and takes things wrongly.  She has taken someone offering to help fix something as either them trying to take over her house or as them saying her other relations do not know enough to fix it.

Mom still does fondly remember the gift given by mail when she was stuck at home with Dad in the hospital.  She had a smile on her face when I asked her about it.

Dad and I agreed to try to get him some paid help with transportation, and running shopping errands.  Dad does not have the strength to bring in groceries.  So help would be appreciated.
Dad took a taxi to chemo, because I was stuck in bad traffic.  He seemed to feel like it went OK.
Mom felt a thirty dollar taxi ride today was expensive.
So I worry that she will complain about the cost of someone coming to help, and drive.  I tried to convince her that the extra help of someone being there in case Dad stumbles was worth something.  It is something she could not do.  Also, on rainy days like this she would not want to drive Dad.  Who knows if any of it stuck.
She just feels useless, and feels that everyone is putting her down, and not letting her do anything.

I worry of Dad's shaking and weakness is due to nutrition.  He is drinking the nutrition drinks on a regular basis, and eating some other items.  So I think he is doing OK, but not great.
It is very likely that the problem is not the nutrition, but the chemo taking a lot out of him.
Either way, it is a praise to God that he is able to still get up and about on
his own without being too wobbly.