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history_monk) wrote2025-09-07 07:16 pm
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Back in London, caring for Mum
Back in 2021-22, I spent 8 months in London, working from there and taking care of my mother. I'm not quite doing that yet, because she's still in hospital after a fall that broke three ribs and a collarbone. I'm living in her flat and visiting the hospital four days a week with an evening meal for her, since the hospital food is pretty poor. I also take her post in, pay her bills, and so on.
Oddly, this is more stressful than looking after her at home. I hope I'll be able to go down to three days a week soon, which will leave me more capacity for working.
She's started physiotherapy and is doing reasonably well with it, so there is a reasonable hope she'll come home this month. Mentally, she is fine, but she is 90 years old, so physical recovery isn't very fast.
Oddly, this is more stressful than looking after her at home. I hope I'll be able to go down to three days a week soon, which will leave me more capacity for working.
She's started physiotherapy and is doing reasonably well with it, so there is a reasonable hope she'll come home this month. Mentally, she is fine, but she is 90 years old, so physical recovery isn't very fast.
Judith Proctor (
watervole) wrote2025-09-03 08:01 pm
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The Morris Federation are doing a recruiting push, backed up by a lot of short videos. Here's the one for Anonymous Morris
We're a team with wide variation in age, etc. See my family photo!. (I'm the oldest one. The rest are my son, daughter-in-law, grandson (very young) and my grand-daughter by my daughter. Theo and Oswin, you can deduce, are cousins.
Dreamwidth's photo hosting is clunky beyond belief... I do wish they'd put a bit of effort into making it work better.