Thank you Sylvia and Hazel
Hi BeadieJay
Good to see you back online, I was wondering what had happened to you.
I hope everything's OK?
Love,
Thank you, wow, what a lovely welcome back, most unexpected but very much appreciated!!
I thought it was about time I stopped lurking, but don't really have much to share about my parents. They both seem to be keeping well (I haven't seen them since December, though we speak on the phone of course), and neither of them seem to have deteriorated, but continue day to day with writing down everything that they do because they can't remember the last 5 minutes.
We've been back in our home 8 weeks now, since moving out to have the house repaired after last July's flood. My poor parents were terribly confused by the whole thing, not helped by the fact that we kept changing our plans. We had decided to stay at home, but have a caravan outside the house where we could sit during the day, and have somewhere to cook, and then sleep in our house at night. Then we had to move out completely so that the house could be rewired, so we ended up renting a house for 4 months while the work was done. Whenever I spoke to my dad during this time, he'd say "so, you're in the rented house during the day, and then you go back to your own house at night?". For such an intelligent man, it really hurt that he couldn't see how illogical this was, but he was confused because this was what we'd planned to do if we had a caravan. Groan - it was a nightmare time, but we have a lovely newly decorated home (re-decorated throughout, which was a big bonus), and nice new furniture. The only problem is, it doesn't feel like home
(apparently a lot of flooded people feel like this when they move home - because everything is so different.)
My children break up from school tomorrow - my son has chronic fatigue syndrome, he's had it for almost 2 years now, but was only diagnosed earlier this year. I'm glad it's the holidays because now we can let him play outside whenever he wants, without worrying that he won't be well enough for school the next day! I'm looking forward to 6 weeks of not having to watch the clock, and also 6 weeks of not having to get up at the crack of dawn!! I just wish I didn't have 6 weeks of the kids moaning because they're bored, or fighting over who watches what on the t.v. LOL
Sorry, I'm taking over Sylvia's thread with my tales!
Sylvia, was today your visit to the Alzheimers cafe? I hope it went well.
Edited to add, that it looks like you had a great time, how lovely for Dhiren to have something so familiar there, he must have been in his element. I'm so happy for you both