UPDATE ON MUM

15/03/2007 by Ted.

EVENING OF 15TH MARCH 2007.  FIRST OF ALL, MY APOLOGIES FOR THE LATE POST - TICALI, MY ISP, HAS BEEN OFF THE AIR.

MUM HAD ANOTHER REASONABLE DAY TODAY AFTER A DISTURBED NIGHT WHE SHE GOT TANGLED UP IN THE BEDDING WHILE DRINKING A CUP OF TEA SOME TIME IN THE EARLY HOURS.  THIS NECESSITATED A BEDDING CHANGE WHEN THE TEA SPILLED AND SHE HAD TO RING HER BELL.  FOLLOWING THIS ADVENTURE THE CARERS GOT HER UP AROUND 7.30AM AND BY 9.30AM SHE WAS WASHED, BREAKFASTED AND INSTALLED IN HE CHAIR.  AROUND 10AM SHE FOUND MORE COMFORT LYING ON HER BED WHERE SHE REMAINED FOR LUNCH - WELL, THE GRAVY AND SOME OF THE CHICKEN AND MASHED POTATOES WHICH WAS ENOUGH FOR HER.  PUDDING CONSISTED OF A MERINGUE NEST WITH APRICOT SLICES AND CREAM WHICH SHE ATE WITH GUSTO.  THEN IT WAS TIME FOR A NAP, AFTER WHICH SHE SAT IN THE CHAIR BY THE WINDOW FOR AN HOUR OR SO BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MORE COMFORTABLE BED UNTIL TEA-TIME.  AFTER A COUPLE OF TOMATO SANDWICHES AND A PIECE OF CAKE SHE STAYED IN BED UNTIL THE 6.30PM MEDICATION AND I TUCKED HER IN AT AROUND 7.45PM AFTER HER HORLICKS AND SLEEPING PILLS.

MUM SAID THAT LAST NIGHT SHE HAD ASKED TO BE PUT TO BED AT 5PM BECAUSE SHE WAS SO WEARY AND TIRED.  SHE FINDS THAT THIS NORMAL END-OF-DAY WEARINESS IS COMING ON SOONER AND SOONER NOW.  BEFORE HER TIME IN HOSPITAL HER BEDTIME WAS AFTER 8PM BUT SHE NOW FINDS IT INCREASINGLY NECESSARY TO GO MUCH EARLIER.  SHE HAS ACCORDINGLY MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CARERS TO PUT HER TO BED AT 5.30PM ON SATURDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS WHEN I AM NOT THERE AND HAS ASKED ME TO DO THE SAME WHEN I AM THERE.

I MENTIONED THE OTHER EVENING THAT A SAMPLE OF HER STOOL HAD BEEN SENT FOR ANALYSIS TO SEE IF SHE IS NOW CLEAR OF THE CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE WHICH SHE BROUGHT BACK FROM HOSPITAL.  ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE CD BACTERIA IS STILL IN HER SYSTEM BUT THIS IS APPARENTLY QUITE NORMAL FOR UP TO THREE WEEKS AFTER THE COURSE OF ANTIBIOTICS HAS FINISHED.  THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ANALYSIS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

BARBARA MENTIONED LAST NIGHT THAT MUM’S TELEPHONE HAD NOT BEEN CONNECTED YESTERDAY AS PROMISED.  THERE WAS A RECORDED BT MESSAGE ON MY TELEPHONE TODAY TO SAY THAT THAT THEY HAD HAD SOME UNDISCLOSED PROBLEM WHICH HAD PREVENTED THIS AND ASKING ME TO RING BT SALES TO MAKE ANOTHER DATE.  THIS I WILL TRY TO DO TOMORROW AND LET YOU KNOW THE RESULT.

AS SHE WAS SETTLING DOWN TONIGHT MUM ASKED ME TO ESPECIALLY SEND EVERYONE HER LOVE WHICH I DO NOW,

MORE TOMORROW,

LOVE FROM ME TOO,

TED. 

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