Very frustrating when people who are kind and well-meaning then do things that annoy me. Friends (a couple) did some re-potting for me in the garden early in the year, and also made me a quilt and stitched a length of fabric on the end of a blanket for me. They've been travelling overseas for months and are now home, and emailed a few weeks ago wanting to come and visit. That was just after I stopped chemo four weeks short of target, and I was still feeling pretty shite. I said that, and said I was looking forward to seeing them but I'd get in touch when I was ready for visitors, probably in a couple more weeks. Then last week they emailed and said they really wanted to come and would I be home on Wed; they will come and bring lunch. What could I say but OK? I set the table and got out cutlery and crockery. They came with some soup and bread and date slice "to go with coffee". They heated the soup in a saucepan. We had lunch and they stayed for ages talking. Turns out they'd also been under the impression that chemo was "just taking tablets". Also, they wanted to come Wed because they're leaving on another trip today. They departed "in time to beat the peal-hour traffic home" - leaving me with a heap of washing-up. Yes, most of it was things that could go in the dishwasher. But. I feel guilty that I was annoyed by that trivial thing. I'm becoming super-sensitive to everything people do and I don't feel good about that.
