a miscellany

A miscellany today, where to begin?

It is a gorgeous day today but there is still much snow across on the mountains. It is nice to feel the tentative warmth of the sun and it gives hope of summer to come.

The saga of Mr Mog's aunt continues. As expected the social services team have reiterated that she does not require the kind of care that residing in a care home would give. In fact at one stage today the senior social worker said that meals on wheels 5 days per week, one meal a day was quite sufficient nutrition? What about the rest of the meals and the 2 missing days?
One would think that social services were expected to pay for care out of their own pockets from the depressing comments I've recently had from them.

It is becoming more unlikely that they will fund anything despite aged aunt being below the financial threshold. I am sure they are hoping that if they keep saying no aunt will back down.
Suffice it to say that the fight hasn't finished, I'm determined to take it as far as I need to if that ensures a speedy answer.
I've been in touch with chief exec of the council involved,also the local MP just for starters.
Methinks or wonders if the election that Goldfish Brown hopes to hold in April may help the case. We shall see.
All I do know is that Aunt wants to move near to her family and she wants some care at this fragile and vulnerable stage. She does not want to be made to jump through hoops for it.

Anyway, on to some spinning.
This fabulous yarn started out as BFL fibre from my good friend Anne who sells fibre and yarn through her etsy shop Mam a Mi. with her daughter. The colours are stunning and the fibre so soft and easy to spin.
From 100g I have spun approx 295 yards.

The bug that I had last week is still hanging about. I'm still having occasional bouts of queasiness and the like. Not as bad as last week but certainly not gone completely.

I'm enjoying spinning on Lulu Lendrum very much, it is very comfortable with the ergonomic shape and exceedingly quiet.
It is mothers day this Sunday and we will be visiting MiL on the day. She is settling well into her care home and looks much better now she is receiving regular meals and 24 hour care.

Of health and aged family

Mr Mog had his six monthly oncology check up today. They are very pleased with his progress. the consultant had mentioned that she may take him off the hormone treatment at this appointment but they have now decided to wait another six months to ensure he has had maximum time on them. I don't think either of us are too worried, as Mr Mog said better them than cancer recurring.
After the appointment we drove up to see the aged parent in her care home. I'm glad to say that she is settling in well and is looking much better than she has for a while. Such a relief for us all.

Sadly however Mr Mog's aunt who is 92 is struggling to stay at home due to worsening health. She has accepted that she will most probably have to go into a care home and is quite philosophical about it. She has only just started receiving help and after an assessment? last week has been told that she is eligible for one hour of care per week at a cost to her of £13. Ridiculous as she is having care several times a week already to help her wash and so forth. This is barely adequate for her needs. Her fridge and freezer are down a very shallow step and she can no longer get to them. She is dependant on an (other) elderly neighbour coming in to get food stuffs out for her. It is 2 years I think since she has been out of the house.
We are going down to Essex this weekend to see what help we can give both on the care home front and on ensuing that she has more help in the mean time.
I sometimes wonder where the assessors get their criteria from on deciding these things.