First glimmer of improvement yesterday was mum complaining!!!!
Always a good sign!!!!!
It seems the infections ARE clearing ... hopefully with the protein drinks and the few mouthfuls of food she is managing (uness it's too hot/cold, not peppery/sweet enough or anything else she decides to moan about!) we will get to her to a point we can get proper investigations into her physical health ...... in the meantime she is ever more repetitive than the BBC and in the next life I am going to be a nodding dog!
Thanks to everyone for their good wishes and especially to those who have been dosing me up with humour to keep me going! As for rest, so far it has comprised feeding the washer, exercising the iron and giving the hoover a run out ...... shopping for essentials, a zillion phone calls to update anyone who needs to know ...... and I am about to amaze my family by preparing supper for us for post-NH visit later ..... (St Sis has camped out again today while I have attended to the 'practicals' both here and at mum's ..... although strangely neither house has fallen down because it hasn't been cleaned for a week!
) ...... BUT I have to confess - with mum in the NH for the last two nights - I have slept soundly for the first time in ages knowing she is being looked after 24/7 ... that in itself tells a tale?
Fingers crossed, she will carry on complaining!
Love and thanks to everyone, Karen, x
(Jennifer, that Rapid Response Team were almost unbelievable (obviously not just for dementia patients) but yes, when I get through this personal 'crisis' I need to make noises in the right places ..... (any ideas on how best to do that Hazel, TinaT? etc!) ..... First time since mum first had memory 'issues' that I have flagged up a problem, been presented with a solution and then sat back and just concentrated on mum while someone else sorted all the practicalities out .... even faxing prescriptions to go straight to the NH .... amazing!)