Sometimes your patient needs extra tender loving care. Sometimes they need a swift kick in the hind end. Don't feel guilty for having feelings - through so much of treatment and recovery everything is about the patient and you lose yourself. At some point things have to balance out. As hard as it is, find the right time to tell him that he's not the only one who has been through this terrible ordeal. It affects everybody. At some point he has to figure out how to deal with the new normal and get on with life. Sometimes you have to quit being quite so nice and demand some things for yourself. It's a terrible thing that happened to him, but, remind him he surely didn't go through all of that to sit on his tukus and stop living.

On top of that - do something nice for yourself. Take a day off and go to the spa. Enjoy a day of complete pampering - a whole day about you and only you. You deserve it.