he cannot handle people being ill - it freaks him out bad. so if i could change my perspective and understand where he may be - that he is not reneging on his medicine duties because he wants to be difficult, but rather because the whole thing and anything to do with it just shuts him down, maybe i can find the right way to approach it so that he feels reassured and wants to do it, rather than avoid it altogether...
will mull on it a while longer...
Yes... mull this over a bit longer... and then post what you think might be a way through this...