Mum update

Not much to say here really. But in case you're interested.

Mum has been out of hospital two weeks, and really is not much more mobile than she was two weeks ago; indeed after a conversation with Sheila yesterday, it seems she is trying to cut down on trips from the armchair and asking Sheila to do stuff. I pointed out to Mum that she has just four weeks of free care left and then she will have to look after herself. She just says yes and goes on to change the subject. As always.

However, she is exploring the house, and things we three have done, and is getting angrier when she finds what has been disposed of. Currently annoying here is a tiny, about the size of a tea mug, deep fat fryer that had never been used. It was in a pile of stuff on one of her work surfaces, along with the omelette maker, which Mum claimed to use "all the time", which I now know has been used once.

Mum says she is more mobile, been doing a lot more, but has only gone as far as the back step of the house of the big bedroom at the end of the house; something like ten metres. When I ask about specifics, she tries to change the subject, or like yesterday, cut the call short.

It as I feared. I mean I understand it is cold and icy, but there is no desire to change, and so our choice whether to visit over the festive depends on whether we can find something more joyous to do other than sit in her living room whilst we ignore the elephants in the room and I get angry as she slips back into her old ways.

Instead of her carers caring, she has had them wrapping Christmas presents and writing cards.

Plus la change