Daily Dose

What a day.

I phoned my parents this morning and my father was (again) convinced that he was in an identicle house in the centre of Edinburgh and that the woman there was not his wife - it didn't matter what I said - there was no changing his mind.

I went in later and found one of the numerous nurses/care workers there on a regular visit (along with my sister who had just popped in). The nurse was in the process of trying to explain that the chemist could prepack a weeks medication to help reassure Dad that he was getting what was prescribed.........that was when Mum shut off and started farting about with a broken lamp.
She just will not accept that we are trying to make things easier for her as Dads mental health deteriorates....she is convinced that we are just butting in to make life hard for her.
She is running herself into the ground and will need medical help soon which will make it even harder for Dad -- she just won't see that.

Then this evening I find out a friends father has to go in on Tuesday for an operation for cancer.......and her mother today found out that she has got a lump in her breast (she lost the other one to cancer 2 years ago)

What a shitty start to the year