louiseinlimbo

My Mum really is not well, mostly from long-term conditions (including Multiple Sclerosis, Ankylosing Spondylitis and Rheumatoid Arthritis), her 40+ years of anorexia, a gastric ulcer – and more recently with dementia.   She does not enjoy her life, but as we don’t have an ‘off switch’ she continues to wake up each morning to suffer yet another day of physical pain and mental distress.   She loves my visits but does not want me to stay at her place – far too stressful (I might put things back in the wrong place…), and my presence will lead to her using more electricity and gas which will increase her expenses.   So I booked myself into my usual hostel, with the understanding that I would take day trips out to my Mum’s house. Visiting her is stressful.   She doesn't stop talking but often starts sentences then can’t remember what she was trying to say.   She has frequent panics about where she put her purse/keys/some important piece of paper.   She struggl...