My Godfather is unwell

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He's sick and I don't know what to do. I'm going to sent him my cd player and some audio books, he's having dizzyness and nausea. He lives alone, he has friends who visit but one of them was rude to him. I didn't call him until today (since my last phone call to him) and I thought he'd let me know if the eye surgery didn't help.

I feel guilty, I didn't have the money for call credit for ages and my bf gave me call credit to call my Godfather today. He's going to have either a cat scan or an mri. He's eating but he feels sick regularly. He doesn't ask for help.

I'm worried and feel useless. My Mum is going to call him Thursday, maybe she'll make him feel better.

Yes, he lives two seas away. I'm in Ireland and he lives on mainland Europe. Thank you for responding.

He's feeling depressed because of feeling ill all the time and I'm worried about him. One of his friends gave out to him for saying that he feels unwell, she said that she didn't want to hear about it but how can he feel ok without being able to talk about it. He's worried that he has cancer. I can't get over there because there's that eruption in Iceland stopping the planes.

I haven't got a full drivers licence at the moment cdfox7 so it would be difficult for me to travel that way (both pyhsically and costwise).

I'm not sure if it would even be helpful (for him) for me to be there either, when he has visitors he tries to play host. I cook when I visit but I'm not so good at cleaning (carpets, dusting etc), and there is a bit of a tendency for most people (who I know) to pick fights when ill (and my Godfather is no exception).

He's planning to visit his sister in Canada as soon as he gets his results and he's not exactly sure when he's getting his results. If his tests indicate he's ok and that it's just an eye issue, he plans to visit me and my Mum in September. He tends to visit Canada for about five weeks each year.

My bf says he thinks my Godfather has vertigo, which, while it is unpleasant, is not potentially fatal to my knowledge. I'm kinda hoping my bf is correct, I'm also hoping that it's just a bad lense precription and that it's easily fixed.

Sorry about my rambling, this may not even make sense because it's all jumbled in my head.

That np I understand I can't drive myself. He sounds like my uncle when I visit him, then he done's visit you make shure you can get some time with him to talk about you consirsers for his health is sounds like you need to persuade him into getting more medial help & support in other areas of his life.

Now will be a good time to start to plan what you to say to him

I agree with leejosepho, it's amazing you care so much about him.

Sending many hugs.