Thanks Marine5068.
I'm stuck here with the broken ankle in a moon boot and my wife decides to have massive vomiting attack
last friday evening. She spent half an hour laying on her side and being repeatedly sick on the floor of the bathroom. She said it was probably Vertigo as she has had this before but nowhere near as bad. Anything that went in by mouth come straight back up and I was worried she would dehydrate. I was just about to call an ambulance when I spotted our neighbour who is a doctor returning from vacation pulling into their drive so I called him and he came over and said it would be better if she went into emergency. I could of course not drive so a couple of family members that lived nearby came over and took her. After 6 hours in emergency on a drip, after running a bunch of tests she was able to come home, being sick agin in the car, and lay in a nauseated heap on the bed. The docs said it was vertigo and just rest.
For 3 days wife could do zip except crawl to the bathroom every now and then and I had to step up and prepare food for myself (wife was eating a couple of crackers or dry toast and a slice of apple as a meal,) and feed dogs. I ended up doing too much around the place so that my good foot suffered (I have flat feet) and so for a day neither of us could do squat and lay on the bed. Fortunately family kicked in, a sister brought over food and fed the dogs, my niece brought over groceries and walked the dogs.
By wearing a walking shoe with an orthotic insert I was able to start using my sore good foot and my nephew drove me to a specialist appointment and also walked dogs.
My wife is only just now able to do a few simple things like prepare meals and feed dogs but she has to keep her head upright, and she is a long way from driving. This morning a brother came over and walked the dogs, brought a couple of boxes of groceries ,and took me to see my mum at the nursing home about 10 minutes away. When we got back my wife was sitting up watching TV provided, there were not too many camera pans which made her sick, so every now and the she had to close her eyes.
We've discovered an on-line grocery store near us that does free delivery for orders over a certain amount so we will use that if we need to.
I guess this shows us what we have to look forward to s we get older.