Phoned the care home and spoke to Daphne, she said that mum was OK, they had got her to eat a bowl of porridge this morning, she had been in John, one of the other residents, room sitting in his recliner chair while he was lying on his bed but she was now in the dining room watching the others make cakes. They will try her with more porridge for supper if she wont eat anything else.
Wednesday 7th March
Mum was sitting by the carers desk, when she saw us she said to one of the other visitors 'there are my two' she looked very confused, we have both noticed that she has lost a lot of weight, she still isn't eating.. It was chaos in the home today, carers rushing about and arguing,I had to ask several times for one of them to take mum to the loo. I couldn't get mum out of the chair otherwise I would have taken her myself.
We walked mum along to her room and sat he in her chair, we put her TV on and she looked a lot happier and calmer, we left her watching TV.
Wednesday 14th March
I went in to see mum with Andrew, mum was in her room, she said 'here's Andrew' she asked him where his older brothers was, we think that she may have meant John. She was watching TV and talking to the people on the screen..Tina told us she loves Jeremy Kyle .... (she wouldn't have watched anything like that when she was well). She seems happiest when she is in her room. She was very muddly again today. Karen came in and helped her into her armchair as she was on a dining room chair. She drank a milky drink while we were there. Andrew showed her his phone and she asked him if she could keep it. He showed her some photos that he had on his phone and she saw one of Dib and she asked Andrew if it was Char. Think it may have just been a fluke but she worked out how to change the photos by flicking the screen of the phone
She was quite happy when we left.
Saturday 17th March
Popped into see mum as Michael is away and Teresa not going in until Monday with Lissa, also Mothers day tomorrow, she was really pleased that we had gone in and looked a lot better today. I changed her duvet cover and made her bed and brushed her hair. She wanted to go to the loo so had to get Daphne to help her as I couldn't get her out of the chair... When Daphne came in she got up on her own!...
Monday 19th March
Teresa and Lissa went in to see mum today. Teresa text to say that they had gone through mums clothes as mum had lost so much weight when she stood up her skirt fell down as it is now too big for her, they are going to buy her some new skirts. Kate had sent some M & S vouchers for mums birthday and Christmas so they would use them towards buying them. I think that mum got a little confused about all the sorting out.
Friday 23rd March
We decided to go in earlier to see mum, we parked at the back and JJ looked in her window she looked really well, Tina and Karen said she had eaten more and by herself instead of them having to feed her. I asked Tina if mum could have her hair done today and she said that they would take her up after we go. Karen came in for a chat and mum was very jolly with her.
John took a photo of her and showed it to her and asked her who it was, she said that she didn't know and when he told her it was her she said 'Bloody hell', she made us giggle several times, she was happy when we left.
Thursday 29th March
I went in to see mum with Mary and Bev, she was in the lounge, she recognised me but not my name she was not sure about Mary and Bev. We told her it was nice outside and she asked to go out, so I asked if she would like to go out for a walk, she stood up and said 'well, come on then'. We got a wheelchair and put her coat on and then got a throw to put round her legs. We took her round the park and she loved it but wanted to pick all the litter.. We took her round Tesco, she was looking and pointing at everything, Mary and I bought her a throw between us. She looked at Mary and told her that she was big!
I nearly had an accident with her when we crossed the road the small wheel at the front of the chair got stuck and the kerb was quite high and it jolted forward, she just giggled ...
They were just getting ready for lunch when we got back so we took her into the dining room and Mervyn took her and sat her at the table still in her wheelchair.
She quite happily let us go and waved at us through the window..
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