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Annb said:
Sorry to hear that Mrs L has had another fall. It must be unnerving for both of you. Glad she didn't hurt herself though. You're right though, you can't be by her side all the time with so much that you have to do. No reason to feel guilty but I don't suppose that saying that will make you feel any happier.
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No it doesn't, it doesn't help with my anxiety when I am not by her side. I have a somewhat worrying state, when I do go out for more than a few minutes. She still believes that her abilities, far exceeds her capability.
As I have no doubt you are aware, with getting to later life, we are not spring chickens no more, and have to take care of how we get about.
Phew! I hope I worded that right?

When I come her lunch, I checked her, to see she was not hurt.
Thanks for your concern.
 
Lamont D said:
6.7 today and average for last week.
I am recovering from two adverse circumstances.
First, Mrs L has again fell over, tripped but managed to do no damage except to her pride.
She had taken a nap on the couch this mid morning and of course my visit to the shops coincided.
Of course, it was this time when I was out that she fell over.
I will add, that my last look before going to the shops, Mrs L was softly snoring.
I am angry at myself for not being there. If I had known, I wouldn't have gone. But waited.
But I do realise that I could have been upstairs, in the garden, or in the kitchen. And it could have happened.
I still feel really guilty.

Second.
I had a really good entertaining football game to watch last night, no, not Arses peno shootout.
But my lot, had something of a change of style of how to play the game. As I say entertaining!
And we won as well, against the top team!
Stunned I am!

Waiting for a phone call from a solicitor who helps with claims. We shall see.
Recommended by doctors to try and claim on my behalf.

Dry this a.m. Now raining, did a bit of a ten minute tidy up after the wind last night. Also cleared some seeds and such around paving. It is a bit warmer but not enough to relax in garden.

Chicken breasts with salad I'm cooking.

And a nice trifle for Mrs L.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

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Hugs for both you and Mrs L @Lamont D
 
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FBG 5.2 After another day of ( very nearly)sensible eating. At least the extra snack was cheese not a whole packet of biscuits.
MrSlim is making great progress with the bath replacement despite it being not exactly the same size. Am off to town , he needs silicone for some joints and I want more seeds.
Have invited a couple of English ladies who live nearby for coffee on Wednesday. Would be great to have more contact with French people but that is more difficult to arrange.
@Annb how is Em? Has she got measles?
Get well wishes for all of you who need them.
 
SlimLizzy said:
12.03
FBG 5.2 After another day of ( very nearly)sensible eating. At least the extra snack was cheese not a whole packet of biscuits.
MrSlim is making great progress with the bath replacement despite it being not exactly the same size. Am off to town , he needs silicone for some joints and I want more seeds.
Have invited a couple of English ladies who live nearby for coffee on Wednesday. Would be great to have more contact with French people but that is more difficult to arrange.
@Annb how is Em? Has she got measles?
Get well wishes for all of you who need them.
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Em felt better last evening, but worse again by this morning. The rash has faded quite a lot. Not at all sure what is wrong - her Mum has also gone down with something similar but no rash.
 
Lamont D said:
No issues this side of the Dee.
Thought outages would not happen?
More porkies?
Or what?
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I'm back...or rather Internet is.
There were a couple of anomalies that bothered me which is why I got in the car to get an Internet signal on the phone. I wanted to know if it was an outage, and if not then what.

Both my phone company and my mobile wi fi company were not working. Very unusual to get two out of action at once...and they both said No Internet Connection.

Anyway after a wee drive, I got a signal on my phone. Checked out both my Internet companies, and both had a similar high spike of an outage.

I had been trying to open up an email on the iPad mini when there was suddenly no internet connection, and a message flashed across the iPad screen of something to the effect of (I can't remember exact words now) that there was a serious fault urgently needed repairing within the iPad and I had to tap yes or no to allow the repair or not. I have never had a message on the iPad screen like that before, and I certainly wasn't getting knee jerked and panicked into pressing yes and so I pressed no. I had no idea if I was doing the right thing. This message came up more than once. I made the assumption, that for some strange reason the iPad was giving me an error message because email couldn't function with no connection, but I still don't understand that because this has never happened before.

Everything is working just fine now. Emails are functioning okay. I am now wondering now if it was something like a sun spot or something?
 
Lamont D said:
First, Mrs L has again fell over, tripped but managed to do no damage except to her pride.
She had taken a nap on the couch this mid morning and of course my visit to the shops coincided.
Of course, it was this time when I was out that she fell over.
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So sorry to hear that @Lamont D .

Good that no real damage was done, but certainly discomforting how easily it can happen & how much more difficult that makes things for you.

Absolutely nothing to feel guilty for.
You're doing your very best to keep life as normal as possible for Mrs L's benefit.

What love that shows .

But those moments are just a a warning you need to up the help (if any ) you are getting, as I'm pretty sure you realise..

God love you for the efforts you make.
But while you impress the heck out of me,
with respect, your not superman, and you can't be everywhere at once.

Sadly your tale is all too recognisable to me.

Mums world began getting smaller as like Mrs L, she Bagan having little tumbles, but at the time was capable enough to make us think she was managing ok so was still popping to the shops.
fresh air & exercise she'd say if dad offered to go or asked her to wait until he was free.

One slip & she broke her shoulder....slowed her down for ages.

Barely recovered from that when she fell & broke her hip.

Which looking back, was the end of her going anywhere alone.

Not meaning to be gloomy.
And easy for me to say, but I'm being practical

All these slips, stumbles & falls, need recording as part of Mrs L decline...(Not what you want to hear I know, I'm sorry )

But you need help & sadly you need to be able to point out how bad things are to push you & Mrs L closer to the front of any queue for such help.

For now it's just been confidence shaking, but you need to delay more serious damage however you can.

A friend or someone to shop or better still sit in while you do it, gets you those moments of desperately needed respite more safely.

(I say a friend but someone officially supporting you is what's really needed )

I know that word might seem a horrid word...respite = time to be me.

But I can't tell you how much simply taking that time out, helped me manage to cope helping look after mum and her decline mentally & dads health issues after being diagnosed with cancer (non operable).

Embrace it if you can, it's your lifeline to strength AND the best thing you can do for Mrs L....Yes really.

Better she has you attending her needs 95% of the time, then finding your too rundown & worn out to be there at all, right.....yes, right ..good man

You're climbing a mountain, unaided & without oxygen.

You maybe don't realise it yet, but you NEED to take those time outs or you won't get to the top.

Tl;Dr.

Record all slips & falls
Tell those best placed to help until their ears bleed.
Sharpen your elbows to help get you to the front of any queues for assistance.

Love & best wishes to you both.
 
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Good morning everyone on a lacklustre start to this weeks International Bin Day celebrations here in the dark and dangerous north. There is a new ‘scheme’ in place where you now have to join a club to get your garden bin collected - £40 for not even a year, April to November and you can’t shove in your Japanese Knott Weed clippings - outrageous - write to Mr Blobby! Only 10,000 steps yesterday and only achieved by a just before midnight visit to the bathroom where the fitbit exploded into congratulatory nonsense and disturbed the auto-pilot sleep walk. Beef has been marinating in red wine, thyme, bay and black pepper overnight so that stew will be into the slow cooker in a while. Art bit, another random wet on wet and try to make something of it. Anyhow - if you woke up - enjoy the day. I need koffy and then to peel some small shallots, but not in an island castle cursed by frigid isolation.


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Beef sounds lush....nom nom nom

Pic..one big beast looking upwards with a lizard lying dead in its mouth

Speaking of which, Lauren & me with cats mooching off us in Cyprus restaurant.

Casually watching the little lizard scootering across the floor until...WHAM...WHAT !!

And that accusatory look from the defendant, at the scene of the crime, with what I put in evidence as "Exhibit One, M'Lud "

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Morning all from a breezy, sullen skied but so far dry L.A. @dunelm the beef stew sounds as though it will be delicious and thanks for the art. At least here we get a whole year for our brown bin fee although many of the exclusions make little sense. The joining fee is well over 50% more expensive here. @jjraak I can just about see the big beast in @dunelem's art. I'd wholeheartedly agree with your advice to @Lamont D having seen/helped my dad go through something similar - even with carers (I found out/had guessed he frequently gave them fuel/food money) it definitely cost him a few years - and seeing how much JKP needs the help of myself and the boys. One good thing the council do/have done this year is pay for JKP as MIL's carer to have her "nails done" Little things mean a lot. Drip trip day here so Moscow, pre-hydration needed. Hopefully the nurses actually do find it in vein - is veination a word? Delicate balance between hydrating enough - amazing how much harder and time consuming it is to find some patient's veins - and stumbling around to go to a loo attached to all the gubbins. Have a good day even with that image living rent free in your head.
 
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A hug for knowing the moments so well .

I love how this little thread & members exemplifies my viewpoint , that much of life's struggles are like a relay race.

We're either watching it from the sidelines, neither understanding the rules & such forth or why some need to race for themselves or those they love.

Or perhaps running in it, each of us taking a go at every stage of that baton change, from the great start once you realise the need, to the stamina needed down that back straight to keep up the pace when your legs are almost exhausted.

On to the final spurt to the end, when you bust a gut doing whatever is needed to succeed.

To that moment immediately after, having given our all, and collapseare flat on our backs drained & gasping for breath.

At some point a kind person takes the time to come over and offer a friendly hand up.

Slowly we get up, shake ourselves down, accept we did our best wherever we finish & hold our heads up, proud & high .

Then we slowly begin to see we how our race once run, might help others.

So we learn & try to coach & advise those about to pick up that baton,
or maybe those who have already begun the race
or loudly cheering those approaching the end as they desperately try to reach the finish line.....

Where they too collapse, gasping for breathe...

And we are the ones lending that hand up, and they slowly come to understand part of the payment for the support is repaid when they join the coaching team.

God bless the runners, it's an arduous task, regardless of what the challenge is.

All of whom are so much in need of the help & assistance of those who raced before.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from a breezy, sullen skied but so far dry L.A. @dunelm the beef stew sounds as though it will be delicious and thanks for the art. At least here we get a whole year for our brown bin fee although many of the exclusions make little sense. The joining fee is well over 50% more expensive here. @jjraak I can just about see the big beast in @dunelem's art. I'd wholeheartedly agree with your advice to @Lamont D having seen/helped my dad go through something similar - even with carers (I found out/had guessed he frequently gave them fuel/food money) it definitely cost him a few years - and seeing how much JKP needs the help of myself and the boys. One good thing the council do/have done this year is pay for JKP as MIL's carer to have her "nails done" Little things mean a lot. Drip trip day here so Moscow, pre-hydration needed. Hopefully the nurses actually do find it in vein - is veination a word? Delicate balance between hydrating enough - amazing how much harder and time consuming it is to find some patient's veins - and stumbling around to go to a loo attached to all the gubbins. Have a good day even with that image living rent free in your head.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. Beef stew now in the slow cooker. Shallots, mushrooms and lardons all fried in butter will be added before serving with chopped parsley sprinkled from a cheffy height. All the best for the drip trip. Take a pie as it’s Pi day 3.14 in little LA speak.
 
jjraak said:
Best wishes for a smooth uneventful trip .

Mmhh not sure, but if that's a misspelling, be cautious if you see any gondolas...just saying .
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Thanks for the good wishes. The race post echoed my thoughts (what I actually think most of the time isn't really "safe" to be shared, so best to keep quiet) on the (literally) macabre "race" poor JKP is witnessing/living through twixt me and her mum. That's where the hugs and prayers are most needed.
 
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dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on a lacklustre start to this weeks International Bin Day celebrations here in the dark and dangerous north. There is a new ‘scheme’ in place where you now have to join a club to get your garden bin collected - £40 for not even a year, April to November and you can’t shove in your Japanese Knott Weed clippings - outrageous - write to Mr Blobby! Only 10,000 steps yesterday and only achieved by a just before midnight visit to the bathroom where the fitbit exploded into congratulatory nonsense and disturbed the auto-pilot sleep walk. Beef has been marinating in red wine, thyme, bay and black pepper overnight so that stew will be into the slow cooker in a while. Art bit, another random wet on wet and try to make something of it. Anyhow - if you woke up - enjoy the day. I need koffy and then to peel some small shallots, but not in an island castle cursed by frigid isolation.


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Ooh, we've had to pay for a garden wheelie for last few years, and for only a partial year as well @dunelm
I put my foot down at that, so garden wheelie now sits in back garden as a tool storage bin. Most of my clippings and hedge cuttings now stay on the ground where they fell. Much easier, and cheaper. Anything bigger gets cut into a woodpile for the hedgehog beasties....
Our council are considering a 3 weekly black bin rubbish collection instead of fortnightly, because apparently we are not recycling enough. That'll be the next one for you...
And in advance they've changed the street litter bins to those with a narrow slot so you cannot even shove a carrier bag of rubbish into it...

Oh the joys of modern living...

Love the painting, every time I look at it, it morphs into a different scene...
 
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