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I telephone yesterday afternoon and she was a little more coherent. She's on IV antibiotics.
Now even my stubborn pig-headed brother is saying she needs proper care..

I don't know what will happen but her body can't keep taking this kind of punishment bouncing from one infection to another.

Goodness of course not.
Im just a bit off at the moment too many things going on andd very few are good but I dont expect everyone to be in sackcloth and ashes...

I know they will give up at some point. I am glad you realize that Cassie, it's tough for people to admit that.

It sounds unlikely but I hope she is still happy in herself. I am glad that when my mum went into the nursing home they decided that she couldn't leave until she had been properly assesed. When I spoke to her last week she seemed happy and settled there, even though when she was at home she insisted she never wanted to go into one. We are coming to the time now though that she has been assesed and we will have to find her a permanent home. That may be a bit more complicated and she may have to move. It's all down to funding and it's complexities. An uncertain time

I used to visit plenty of nursng/care homes quite recently, and though some were better than others. I never saw a bad one. On the whole, I found the care homes to be better places to live in. The staff tended to be warmer. 

I completely agree with you. My mom who had dementia for almost 10 years before her passing was in bed staring at the ceiling everyday, we felt the same way you do now.

Got some English in today with the youngest by doing silly sentences. We reviewed some of the grammar definitions from his regular workbook, but then I asked him to make a goofy sentence with those things. Much more interesting than the workbook! The middle guy wasn't having it, but I can try this afternoon or tomorrow. And then the oldest just ended up having an easy page in his workbook, so we did it the normal way (except the last exercise with fill in the blanks, since he treated it like MadLibs and went goofy - whatever, it's still done LOL).

I also watched a video to give me more info on the next book of the Bible I'll be studying. I've got one of the odd ones this time: ancient love poetry that's in the Wisdom section of the Bible. I'm still catching up from books I missed in 2015 from the website I use for studies, so I'll get this one done in a couple weeks and then the next will be this year's Spring study. (They used to run consecutively, but I think the website owner needed more space in her schedule, so that created space for me to catch up. Yay!)

In the mail today: National Geographic mag for the oldest (and the rest of us if we're interested) plus my very own copy of the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide movie. Woo hoo! (The trilogy in five parts has also been ordered, and we're reading it from the library until then...)

It sounds somewhat silly to me that my mum is not fit to go home just because of her poor memory when there are so many others physically far worse but, because they have better memories, are seen as fit to live at home without support. The guidelines are harsh

Our loft isn't too bad, but it could do with having less in it.

Though I could say the same about my own room.

Respect! LOL

When you have children you feel differently about certain things and when you've lost a parent you know there are certain things you cannot let go of.

As for apartment living that is my worst nightmare I hate it I hate the idea of being stuck in some box surrounded on all sides by people know I need to be able to walk out my door without seeing other people and without hearing their noise ..I like to be on my own I don't like being surrounded by people.

Fair enough, cassie.

I actually like being surrounded by my neighbours. It means if there's a flood or something serious breaks, there are people who can help. Plus, having an apartment forces you to go out: you can't wander around in an apartment for weeks on end. You'd go mad. Therefore you're forced to live your life and learn to enjoy your life. Plus, people are everywhere anyway.

Still, I can understand where you're coming from: apartment living is not for everyone.

To illustrate that ^^ I have a patient whose house was hit, and set alight by lightning. When she ran out all her neighbours were already there, she had nover seen most of them before.

But there they all were, with their phones out recording her house burning down.

I saw her last week, they can't afford to fix it, so it will be sold as is.

I went to work, got through three meetings then felt so sick so I came home. First time I stayed away from the computer more than 6 hours when I was awake.