Firstly I wish Mr Annielou a Happy Birthday for tomorrow. I hope you are able to have some quality time together.
The visit yesterday did seem lovely which must have made today’s visit harder. I do sometimes think it is easier to talk to a complete stranger because you know you will not see them in the longer term.
it does seem like progress is being made with moving your Mum to a ‘convalescent home’. (I use that term with my Mum and she seems to accept it now) I know it will be so tough for you but I really hope it happens soon.
Don’t beat yourself up about it. You really have done such a fantastic job keeping your Mum at home as long as you did even when she no longer realised it was her home.
You mentioned a box of photos. Really good idea. May I suggest perhaps taking photocopies of them and putting them in a small album. Photos in a box may go missing or get damaged. At least if they are photocopies they can be replaced. I did one for Mum at Christmas and then I was going to put names/places/events by the side of them as an activity to do with Mum. Unfortunately lock down happened and we never got to do it. It would have helped staff when they chat with her If they had some info by them.
As Juggling Mum said do get on with labelling some clothes. Or get some ordered. Remember also labelsMarkers for shoes/slippers And sticky labels for anything that moves (eg photos in frames). I am sure that there are many good companies but someone on here mentioned ‘name tag-it.co.uk’ and I used them.
you are doing amazingly???
The visit yesterday did seem lovely which must have made today’s visit harder. I do sometimes think it is easier to talk to a complete stranger because you know you will not see them in the longer term.
it does seem like progress is being made with moving your Mum to a ‘convalescent home’. (I use that term with my Mum and she seems to accept it now) I know it will be so tough for you but I really hope it happens soon.
Don’t beat yourself up about it. You really have done such a fantastic job keeping your Mum at home as long as you did even when she no longer realised it was her home.
You mentioned a box of photos. Really good idea. May I suggest perhaps taking photocopies of them and putting them in a small album. Photos in a box may go missing or get damaged. At least if they are photocopies they can be replaced. I did one for Mum at Christmas and then I was going to put names/places/events by the side of them as an activity to do with Mum. Unfortunately lock down happened and we never got to do it. It would have helped staff when they chat with her If they had some info by them.
As Juggling Mum said do get on with labelling some clothes. Or get some ordered. Remember also labelsMarkers for shoes/slippers And sticky labels for anything that moves (eg photos in frames). I am sure that there are many good companies but someone on here mentioned ‘name tag-it.co.uk’ and I used them.
you are doing amazingly???