Just thought I'd share this with you, as lots of you ask how my Mum's doing and lots of you will know that to be honest, she's going a wee bit batty.<\/p>\n
Since she turned 80 in October, the answer in her own words is 'I'm not the woman I used to be'. It's getting increasingly evident that Mum has some form of dementia creeping up on her, which you can put down to old age forgetfulness for a while, but after a bit you start to realise its not all quite there any more.<\/p>\n
Last week it kind of hit home when, bless her, she'd forgotten what to do with Xmas presents – even though I'd bought hers for her, and put post-its on with who they were for, she couldn't work out that they needed wrapping and a tag on each one. All a bit sad but you just have to work round these things, explain it again and check the next time if she's managed to do it ok.<\/p>\n
Today though, the evidence of Mum getting a little less 'on the ball' did – I have to admit – actually make me laugh. Well, you really do have to find some slightly macabre black humour in…<\/p>\n
walking to the front door…<\/p>\n
picking up the post…<\/p>\n
opening your Xmas card from your Mum…<\/p>\n
only to find another Xmas card in the pile, rather strangely from her to us as well…<\/p>\n
And then, blow me, a third one bang under the other two – all of which she must have sent on the same day<\/p>\n
And to cap it all…. the bit that had me snorting (yes, bad daughter, but hey)<\/p>\n
the greeting in the last one wishing us a Happy Xmas…<\/p>\n
And all the VERY best for 1910<\/span><\/strong>! <\/p>\n xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just thought I'd share this with you, as lots of you ask how my Mum's doing and lots of you will know that to be honest, she's going a wee bit batty. Since she turned 80 in October, the answer in her own words is 'I'm not the woman I used to be'. It's getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n