It's okay, Dad: Sleep affirmations for aging parents of disabled adult children

Some nights you get up two or three times, just to pull a blanket back over him. Tonight, you can lie down and let the night look after him for a while. Stay as long as you like. Falling asleep here is the whole idea. ________________________ His son was born with a disability, and for forty-one years he has not had a single day off. His wife passed six years ago. Now he is seventy-four, his knees are giving out, and an application for a group home has sat in his drawer for eight months, because filling it out feels like handing his son off to strangers. If any of that sounds like a night you have had, this one is for you. Someone is sitting up with you tonight.