Sadly no, my partner's not okay
My partner and I met and became a couple in 1985 when we were both 32 years old. We got married in 1989. Since 2006 she has been unable to work due to health problems. For the last two years she has been homebound, spending the majority of the day in bed, in various degrees of pain and discomfort, only leaving the house for medical appointments. For the purposes of this website I will call her CC. Most of our friends and family know CC has not been well for a long time, as do some of our neighbours and people with whom I work. This means I am often asked questions like these: Is CC okay? How's CC today Is CC doing any better? How's your wife doing these days? These questions are indicative of concern and empathy and as such they are much appreciated. However, I have always found it hard to provide answers that are at once accurate, brief, and helpful. Too often I have given spur of the moment answers that are so incomplete as to be inaccurate; or so long as to be socially aw...