He is very unsteady. He relies on the grocery cart to walk. After a while he becomes very weak and we have to hold him up so he doesn’t fall. We go shopping 2 days a week. He is very stubborn. Seems like he can’t accept the fact that he doesn’t walk well anymore. We are supposed to go shopping tomorrow. I am already stressing out.
Maybe you can compromise, find smaller stores to get him out in once a week. Although my mom still doesn't like it wants to go out more, wants to go to Walmarts, which she just can't do, and doesn't see that. But we just do what we can, and the best we can with what we are given
Getting out to these little stores is what keeps her going, makes her feel apart of the world, gives her exercise. It will be hard on her when that's gone
We took my father in law to Cosco a few times at his request . We told him he had to sit in the wheelchair . I pushed him , hubby pushed the shopping cart . Father in law would buy only one thing . It wasn’t worth the long drive for him to only buy one thing . So we switched and only took him to small stores where he could walk until that was too difficult . He was very unsteady and legs weak . Then we told him he would have to sit in the wheelchair everytime we took him out , even to go out to the diner. The handicapped ramps even got too difficult for him to walk , we had to hold onto him . He could only do flat ground. Hubby and I decided we weren’t dealing with him falling when we took him out from his assisted living facility . He sat in the wheelchair the whole time he was out with us no matter where we went . We only went very local to one place per outing , and brought him back to his facility , as he could not be managed in a public bathroom either . We left his walker in his room.
Stop holding him up in the store , that’s absolutely ridiculous. Your husband needs to put his foot down with his Dad .