Hi guys and gals and happy new year to you all. As some of you may of noticed,I have been missing in action of late,sorry, but I had a reasonable good excuse.I also tried to visit here daily quickly just to keep up but without posting, yeah,another lurker I hear you all think. Well some of you may know that I am chief caregiver,( the only) for my elderly Mum, and she decided that leading up to the Christmas / New Year break would be an excellent time to have a heart attach and develop pneumonia. She also has dementia and as I have learnt over the past few weeks is that when a dementia patient becomes unwell,their brain becomes really off balance and boy,does that make things difficult. Eg. Mum would ask to have her bedroom window opened and then no sooner I had left the room Mum would get up and close it and then call out for me to open it. She all of a sudden,couldn't put herself in bed,so I would have to help her and again,no sooner walk out the room ,she would be up sitting on the side of the bed. Anyway,to cut a long story short,after three visits to her Doctor ,doc realised that something wasn't right and after some tests,had Mum rushed to hospital in an ambulance where she was to stay until the 4th January and then be transferred to our little hospital here in Pukekohe for respite care but this battle axe nurse decided that Mum could go home on Monday and even sent her home with me in her hospital gown and bare feet.So as you can see,I would like to get everything back on track and settle both Mum and I down to a routine again which we are both happy with. Cheers for now,Whip....