It cannot be overlooked, the comment you made about your husband who would not come to see you. If that is truly the case, then you are alone just like the man who is now alone given that his wife has passed on and left him behind. I assure you, he will follow her quickly. But you have to face the fact that you are alone.
I say this painful thing to you in order for you to see that we project onto our patients our own issues. For me, it's existentialism: I see a patient wasting away in bed, and I worry that when I'm old, I will have done nothing with my life that mattered. It horrifies me.
You know, though, don't be so sure your husband wouldn't come to visit you just like that. Maybe he just takes you for granted now. You have to understand that it's far more likely this old woman who had a stroke had the same relationship with her husband that you have. Guilt is a huge motivator. He did, after all, put her in a nursing home, and I'll bet she didn't want to go.
We think we know how people will act, but we often underestimate the reason they may act 180 degrees out from that.:nurse-idk: