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Archive for 03/07/2007
UPDATE ON MUM
03/07/2007 by Ted.
EVENING OF 3 JULY 2007. ANOTHER POSITIVE REPORT ON LITTLE MUM. SHE REMAINS FRAIL AND SOMEWHAT BREATHLESS BUT HER MIND IS CRYSTAL CLEAR AND SHARP. SHE INSISTS ON DOING MORE AND MORE FOR HERSELF DESPITE HER FRAILTY AND ORGANISES MYSELF AND THE CARERS IN AN INOFFENSIVE WAY TO HAVE THINGS THE WAY SHE LIKES THEM - WHICH IS FAIR ENOUGH AS BEING IN CARE IS ALL ABOUT HER COMFORT AND WELFARE. ONE PARTICULAR INSTANCE CONCERNS HER GOING TO BED. FOR THIS SHE HAS TO HAVE CERTAIN THINGS ON HER TABLE AND BED TO ENSURE THAT IF SHE NEEDS SOMETHING DURING THE NIGHT IT IS THERE WHERE SHE CAN FIND IT. OF LATE SHE WAS REMARKING THAT SHE COULD NOT SEE THE CLOCK WHEN SHE AWOKE AT NIGHT. SHE MAINTAINED THAT THIS WAS BECAUSE HER EYESIGHT WAS GETTING WORSE - BUT WHEN SHE WAS REMINDED THAT SHE HAD A PAIR OF SPECTACLES TO HELP HER SEE SUCH THINGS AS CLOCKS SHE PUT THEM ON AND NOW CAN SEE THE CLOCK PERFECTLY. HOWEVER THIS MEANS THAT THE SPECTACLES MUST BE PLACED WHERE HER HAND CAN FIND THEM IN THE NIGHT SO THAT SHE CAN PUT THEM ON TO SEE THE CLOCK. AND SHE HAS A WHOLE FAMILY OF SUCH THINGS IN CASE SHE NEEDS THEM.
ON TWO NIGHTS A WEEK i AM NOT THERE TO SEE HER INTO BED AND TO ARRANGE THE COMFORTS SO A LIST HAD TO BE MADE FOR THE CARERS SO THAT THEY CAN GET IT RIGHT WHEN THEY HAVE THAT PRIVELEGE. BUT HER MIND, BUT NOT HER TONGUE, IS AS SHARP AS TWOPENCE IF I OR THEY SHOULD OVERLOOK ANYTHING.
WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO VENTURE OUTDOORS FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER NOT BEING SUITABLE. HOWEVER MUM IS INSTEAD TAKING EXERCISE WALKS UP AND DOWN THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE HER ROOM AND IS MANAGING TO WALK FURTHER AND FURTHER. HER POOR OLD BODY CAN HARDLY KEEP UP WITH HER MIND AS IT DRIVES HER ON TO DO NEW THINGS. YESTERDAY SHE HOBBLED ACROSS THE ROOM TO HER BEDSIDE CABINET WHERE WE KEEP SOME CHOCOLATE TEACAKES - HER CURRENT FAVOURITE SNACK. THERE SHE OPENED THE DRAWER AND RETRIEVED THE CHOCOLATE TEACAKES AND TOOK THEM BACK TO HER CHAIR WHERE SHE SCOFFED HER DAILY RATION (SELF IMPOSED) OF TWO TEACAKES. NOT SO LONG AGO SUCH AN EXPEDITION WOULD HAVE BEEN BEYOND HER. SHE REALLY IS INCREDIBLE.
HER SHORT TERM MEMORY IS A LITTLE LACKING THESE DAYS BUT THE LONG TERM MEMORY IS GREAT. SHE RECALLS FAMILY BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES AND THE LIKE AND CONTINUES TO TALK ANIMATEDLY ABOUT HER LARGE FAMILY AND EXPRESS CONCERNS AT THEIR PROBLEMS AND PLEASURE AT THEIR GOOD HAPPENINGS. SHE STILL REMEMBERS AND LOVES YOU ALL VERY MUCH.
SHE IS, OF COURSE, STILL ANXIOUS TO BE OFF TO THE NEXT PHASE OF HER LIFE. WHEN SHE HEARD OF RUTH’S DEPARTURE SHE WAS CRESTFALLEN BECAUSE SHE HAD GONE BEFORE HER - BEING ONLY 90 YEARS OF AGE! THEN SHE LEARNED OF A GENTLEMAN AT ST. GEORGE’S WHO WILL ALSO SOON BE ON HIS WAY - HE HAS ADVANCED LEUKAEMIA. WHEN SHE HEARD THIS SHE BRIGHTENED - “THINGS HAPPEN IN THREES”, SHE SAID. “PERHAPS I WILL BE THE THIRD!”
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
ANYWAY, LOVE TO EVERYONE FROM MUM AND ME,
BACK SOON,
TED.
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