UPDATE ON MUM

07/03/2007 by Ted.

EVENING OF 7TH MARCH 2007. TODAY WAS MY WEDNESDAY SHOPPING DAY IN BARROW. BEFORE I WENT I VISITED MUM AND FOUND HER THE SAME AS YESTERDAY MORNING - IMPROVING FROM THE SIDE EFFECTS OF HER 7.30AM MEDICATION. AS I WAS DOING MY MORNING JOBS HER COLOUR RETURNED AND SHE BEGAN TO FOCUS IN ON THE DAY. I AM STILL IN BARROW AS I WRITE THIS, BUT I HAVE NOT BEEN CONTACTED BY THE HOME SO I ASSUME MUM HAS HAD ANOTHER DAY SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY.  BY NOW SHE WILL BE IN BED AND FAST ASLEEP HAVING TAKEN HER EVENING SEDATIVE.

MUM’S INDEPENDENCE IS NOW BEGINNING TO REASSERT ITSELF AND, THOUGH STILL FRAIL, SHE WANTS TO BE MORE ACTIVE DURING THE DAY. TO THIS END SHE THIS MORNING ASKED TO HAVE HER ZIMMER FRAME BROUGHT IN AND SHE WILL USE THIS TO GET TO THE BATHROOM TO WASH HERSELF AND ALSO WHEN SHE GOES TO THE LOO. SHE WAS ALSO PLANNING TO GET OUT OF BED HERSELF DURING THE NIGHT IF SHE NEEDED THE LOO AND GO THERE CARRYING HER NIGHT-CATHETER WITH HER.  SHE HAS NOW PROMISED THAT SHE WILL NOT EVEN CONSIDER DOING THIS BUT WILL RING HER BELL. THIS MORNING SHE ALSO ASKED ME TO CONNECT UP HER RADIO - TUNED IN TO CHANNEL 4 - SO THAT SHE COULD LISTEN TO THE NEWS AND MAYBE OTHER PROGRAMMES TO HELP PASS THE DAY - WHICH SEEMS TO BE A LONG DAY NOW THAT SHE STAYS IN HER ROOM.  HER WANTING TO DO THIS IS A STEP FORWARD BECAUSE, UNTIL NOW, SHE HAS NOT HAD INTEREST IN ANYTHING OUTSIDE ST. GEORGE’S SINCE SHE CAME OUT OF HOSPITAL.

MORE TOMORROW,

LOVE TO ALL,

TED.

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