UPDATE ON MUM

EVENING OF 1ST JUNE 2007. BECAUSE OF HER ADVANCED YEARS AND FRAILTY MUM HAS BEEN GRADUALLY FINDING LIFE MORE AND MORE OF A STRUGGLE - EVEN IN THE SUPPORTIVE ATMOSPHERE AT ST. GEORGE’S.  LAST EVENING SHE SAID DESPONDENTLY, “I AM TIRED OF STRUGGLING”.

AS A CONSEQUENCE DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD WITH THE SENIOR CARERS AND MANAGERESS OF THE HOME IN AN ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS WHICH CAUSE MUM TO HAVE TO STRUGGLE. TODAY A NEW CARE PLAN WAS PRESENTED FOR APPROVAL WHICH ASSIGNS MORE PERSONAL HELP FROM CARERS FOR BASIC TASKS OF WASHING, DRESSING, TOILETING, EATING ETC AND IT IS HOPED THAT THIS WILL MAKE LIFE MORE MANAGEABLE FOR HER.  MUM WAS ALSO ONCE AGAIN INSTRUCTED TO RING HER BELL WHEN SHE HAS A NEED INSTEAD OF ASSUMING THAT ALL THE CARERS ARE BUSY AND SHE SHOULD NOT DISTRACT THEM FROM WHATEVER THEY ARE DOING.

WITH THE WARMER WEATHER SHE HAS BEEN HOT AND PERSPIRING IN BED AT NIGHT AND THIS HAS CAUSED HER SLEEP TO BE EVEN MORE INTERRUPTED LEAVING HER WEARY DURING THE DAY. AGAIN, STEPS HAVE NOW BEEN TAKEN TO TRY TO HELP HER TO SLEEP ALTHOUGH, AS SHE HERSELF POINTED OUT, SHE IS IN BED FROM AROUND 6.30PM UNTIL 7AM - TWELVE AND A HALF HOURS. AS SHE DOES NOT NEED TO SLEEP FOR TWELVE AND A HALF HOURS SHE IS BOUND TO BE AWAKE FOR SEVERAL OF THE HOURS IN THE NIGHT-TIME. TONIGHT AS SHE WAS PREPARING FOR BED SHE CONFESSED THAT BECAUSE OF THE SLEEPLESS HOURS SHE DREADS GOING TO BED. WE CONSIDERED HER PERHAPS GOING TO BED AT 9PM, BUT THIS WOULD MEAN THE ADDITIONAL HOURS WOULD BE SPENT SITTING IN HER CHAIR WAITING FOR BED-TIME TO COME INSTEAD OF IN BED WAITING FOR SLEEP TO COME.

TODAY WAS A LOVELY DAY WEATHERWISE AND SHE SPENT TIME IN THE GARDEN BY THE DUCKS AND DUCKPOND.  IT PROVED TOO WARM TO BE THERE FOR LONG SO SHE EVENTUALLY SETTLED FOR A SEAT IN  THE SHADE OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY WHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL TEA-TIME.

SHE CONTINUES TO EAT WELL AND TO HAVE HER EXERCISE SESSIONS, AND ONCE THE NEW CARE PLAN IS IN OPERATION TOMORROW LIFE SHOULD - WEATHER PERMITTING - BE HAPPIER FOR HER.

TONIGHT SHE SENDS HER LOVE TO YOU ALL,

ME TOO,

TED.

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