Sarah

Ok so I’ve just found out my MIL hasn’t been allowed to eat for 2 days. No wonder she’s frikkin confused.

Ok so I’ve just found out my MIL hasn’t been allowed to eat for 2 days. No wonder she’s frikkin confused.

Yes.

I wasn’t really arguing about who did what and who is most responsible, just talking about my recollections from living in a very Royal Mail house.

MIL is not like that. She’s pretty unravelled.

I’m sorry you went through that and are going through that xx it’s a lot.

Yes I know. It was the subject of many breakfast conversations.

Intense

This is a step up though.

That’s been mentioned by my auntie.

It might be.

I tend to think she has had something undiagnosed for the last 20 years that has just become more apparent since she was widowed… but I’m not her son and it’s not my place to say.

The business slowly changed though. It was edged towards privatisation.

Could v well be… I tend to think there is an underlying condition though. She has lots of paranoid delusions. But maybe both?

Ok it’s gone south again.

All is calm again now. Hopefully will be through the night. It’s been an intense day for Jack but it’s at least flagged her up to the nurses and they’ve asked some questions about her current mental state… so hopefully it’s opened up a new pathway.

They’ve given her antibiotics just in case

Jack thought she’d proper snapped and gone full blown Alzheimer’s (there have been concerns about things). Jack’s sister arrived and managed to calm her down. She started excepting medication and hydration. She’s come back round again…

When Jack got there she was charging around. Jack said this poor young nurse was trying to coax her back to bed and she was like GET OFF ME. The Dr came and she was like DON’T YOU DARE SPEAK TO HIM! Then she got out the ward and shouted CALL THE POLICE to the atrium.

Ooh!

Oh my god, it has been a DAY!

Last night MIL was having some paranoid delusions which isn’t unusual tbh. It’s fairly constant. But today was just extra.

The hospital called Jack this am. They’d had a bad night with MIL. Had been calling the police through the night. Was trying to escape.

We’ve walked back on that…

Ok maybe not…

Although it will be difficult there’s an amount that I think will be a relief, you know? Like they could see the train coming for quite a long time and now it’s time to get on board.

After all the anxiety last night matters have progressed somewhat… don’t really think it’s appropriate to give details but looks like my MIL, her children and by extension me are on the dementia pathway.

It started under John Major. I can’t remember details as I was very little but mum was talking about privatisation then.

Jesus I’m pleased the grown ups took charge.

Siphoning

Siphoning

Interesting… they had been operating separately for far far longer. Parcel Force too.

Pretty much.

She’s not in the best of health and she’s grieving and I have so much empathy with that…

But she’s also a bit of a minx and that is hard to deal with.

They’ve been separate for far longer than that. At least since the mid 90s.

(I know this is a really weird thing to be a nerd about but my mum worked for RM and my grandparents were subpostmasters).

I think she is.

I know she isn’t in the best of health and is frail and vulnerable… but I also think she is a bit of a mischief.