http://mathschick.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 14 May 2008 10:54:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am running in the Race for Life in Regents Park in London on 19th July. This is to raise money for Cancer Research.  I have decided to try and raise money in this way, as I find running very challenging, but that is nothing compared to the challenges faced ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/sponsor-me/ The first stage of bereavement is shock and disbelief according to one website I consulted about this. It probably explained why I felt physically sick for most of last week and walked around in a daze, constantly having to remind myself what had happened, for part of me believed that ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/the-bereavement-process/ I took this photo with my mobile phone camera two summers ago. Mum went to stay with one of her old school friends who she had known since they were both 11 years old. I joined them in Bournemouth that summer and we had been drinking wine in the ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/me-and-my-mum/ I never imagined that mum would die whilst I was doing bus duty. I never imagined finding that out on my mobile phone at a busy tube station whilst on my way to see her, knowing that she had taken a turn for the worse. I had imagined that somehow ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/all-things-must-come-to-pass/ It really is amazing what writing letters and emails can do. On Thursday night I wrote to Radio 4, as my previous post explains, and then yesterday lunchtime they called me. A researcher for woman's hour was interested in our story and is going to be referring to it in ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/radio-4-comes-up-trumps/ I have just emailed the Alzheimer's Society and Woman's Hour on Radio 4 about our long trail of neglect by the NHS. As a regular and avid listener of Woman's Hour I am hoping that Jenni Murray might be interested in helping us raise this issue in the media. No ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/womens-hour-are-you-interested/ Mum moved into the home today. It all went well apparently, and I am so relieved that at last she has her dignity back. I couldn't be there to help her get moved in (the joy of a full-time job) but I shall visit on Saturday. For the first time ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/neglect-for-free-on-the-nhs/ Mum has finally been given the all-clear to move into the nursing home that has a space! She is moving there tomorrow morning. We are so happy. It is the most positive thing that has happened for mum in the last few months. Our time of waiting for her to be somewhere ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/home/ Finally a place in a nursing home has been found for mum. My step-father decided not to wait for the hospital and social services to get back to him about a place, and instead he did his own research into finding a place for her. He started by asking the ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/nil-by-mouth/ Mum is now in the End Stage of Alzheimer's Disease. Mum has now been moved out of the ward that she shared with 3 other patients, and has a side room to herself. There is no bed in her room, but a series of mattresses on the floor that ... http://mathschick.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/the-late-stage-of-alzheimers-disease/