Monday round-up

Hi everyone,

Oh goodness me! This post was really intended for publication on the Care Community page! The Monday morning gremlins are clearly on the warpath. But as I've already had a couple of 'likes' and responses, I'll leave it here too for today!

It's a stark Monday morning out there for me here on the south coast. A steel-grey sky typical of November. My husband who migrated here 10 years ago makes me laugh as he still cannot sort out our seasons. In Guyana, where he's from, it's always hot and dry or hot and wet, so it's oh so simple, but he constantly asks what season 'it's supposed to be' here now, as the weather just will not conform to any kind of seasonal description that he recognises.

Welcome to any and all who have just joined us or taken the time to post here this week. We've had contact from several people previously little known or unknown to me which has been great and I hope you've felt welcome and supported by us.

News on my home front with my sister is good. You might remember we had a family crisis after she had a serious slip and fall accident, and is the carer for her husband with mixed dementia.

I'm now in communication with her in hospital and she's doing really well and getting around on a walking frame with not too much pain. She's had one or two small setbacks, but if those are resolved, might even make it home before too long.

And meantime at her home, social services are assessing their living situation and coming up with solutions for their practical problems so that, with a little help, they will still be able to be independent until she hopefully makes an even better recovery.

Her own children who have been helping out were dismayed as many of us are at the struggle there was to make Social Services realise the size of the emergency and the speed with which help was needed. Leaving aside social services' difficulties in being so overstretched, that can't be an excuse when it reaches a point that a partially sighted man with a middle-stage dementia is about to have to be left at home to cope alone. But finally, at the eleventh hour help arrived.

I'm sure that many of you have also faced this knife-edge situation in a crisis.

So here we are on the fresh page of a Monday morning. It's likely to be a quiet one for all of us in England in particular, but for all of us, I hope we can all find some enjoyment in our coming week. Take care everyone and stay safe and positive! 🙏👍🌈😊