If you depend too much on a daughter, your husband may then feel left out. Now you have to consider their emotions as well as your own emotions and pain. Weekly family meetings are necessary to discuss everyone's situation. Your best friends will dwindle down to a precious few, or none. You will have to find other social outlets to keep yourself emotionally fit.
Senior centers provide transportation at least once a week for disabled individuals.
There will be occasions where you can't write cards or letters, or pay your bills. A neighbor or volunteer may be requested through your church, senior center, Red Cross, local PAL, precinct or high schools. Zippers, snaps, hooks, buttons, pins and buckles can be replaced with velcro fastening strips. Pantyhose may become a thing of the past. Knee-high nylons will fill your drawers.