Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
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Jul 2019
1:48pm, 31 Jul 2019
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Fragile Do Not Bend
My mum has always a Daily Mail reader and rather right wing, but I get the impression she’s not forming her own opinions as much and more reliant on what that paper tells her.
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Jul 2019
4:29pm, 31 Jul 2019
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LindsD
That's good news, Postie.
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Jul 2019
4:53pm, 31 Jul 2019
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Mandymoo
My mum cant read or write 🙄 and she has a thing about queens!!!!
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Jul 2019
4:53pm, 31 Jul 2019
8,750 posts
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Mandymoo
Queers
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Jul 2019
4:54pm, 31 Jul 2019
27,412 posts
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LazyDaisy
I want my mum's Attendance Allowance to be upped to the higher level as she needs night-time support (could probably have claimed this earlier if I'd been on the ball. ) I took the form over for her to sign this afternoon. FFS, why does one form require her signature in three separate places? She signed once with her normal signature (though very shakily), once she just printed her name (even though I'd written down her normal, initials only, name for her to copy, and I didn't spot that there was a third box on the back of the sodding form. Why three times on the same form??? |
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Jul 2019
4:55pm, 31 Jul 2019
8,751 posts
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Mandymoo
Her words not mine.
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Aug 2019
9:07pm, 1 Aug 2019
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Jenelopy
My Mum is still waiting until late Sept to see the neurologist, but apparently the neurologist has told her Dr it is unlikely to be Parkinson's because she doesn't have the tremor. The current theory is that the slow movement, shuffling walk with small steps, odd gait and balance problems leading to falls, are due to her cerebellum. She has to have an MRI before her appointment with the neurologist, so hopefully that will aid diagnosis. Five years ago, we all did a pretty tough, remote 4 day walk - we got dropped off by float plane and walked out via small backcountry huts, seeing four other people on the way. My Mum was fine, and carried her own pack the whole time. This year she just managed an easy four day walk, with a light pack (that we carried most of the time). Apparently now (6 months later), multi-day walks are out of the question (even with hotels and pack transfer) and short walks need to be flat and easy. She had a fall last week putting the wheelie bin out. I know that age isn't always kind, but it seems such a deterioration 
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Aug 2019
10:04pm, 1 Aug 2019
18,224 posts
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ChrisHB
That is horribly fast deterioration, J.
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Aug 2019
10:08pm, 1 Aug 2019
26,980 posts
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macca 53
Oh Jen that must be horrible for you all ((()))
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Aug 2019
6:35am, 2 Aug 2019
1,539 posts
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Little Miss Happy
I'm sorry Jen. I know it's not the same but when FiL's Alzheimer's went bad it went really bad - one day he was dressing himself, making coffee, having a reasonable conversation and the next he was hospitalised never to return home - he just fell off a cliff and then had a couple more episodes of rapid deterioration too. It's very difficult to come to terms with.
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