stone's throw :Laugh: about a 5 minute walk, TBH it's been getting me down recently, all she wants to do is sit in her chair and sleep, keep trying to get her up to get her moving a bit, but it is a real chore, haven't been getting to bed until 02:00 just trying to get her out of the chair and upstairs, and the incontinence is also getting to me, had to buy 2 new beds along with all the associated bedding, and I have had to put mine into my "den". Even the home help carers have been having problems with her over the last week or two, getting her motivated, think it's a case of what's best for her, it would definitely make my life easier, it's not easy being a carer.
Glad it's close! A long trail to visit someone in hospital is very wearing. The one I was in is a 10-15minute drive, and sons took it in turns to bring my husband afternoon and evening - he'd have driven himself though if they hadn't come, but he was pretty upset that week ..been a very long time since I was ill.
Reading what you say, I can see how full time care would probably benefit you both. It's extremely difficult to deal with all of those things.
I spent two years working on psychiatry - adult and elderly care. Loved those people, but the elderly ones were indeed hard work just for 8 hours per day. 24/7 is something else altogether, and very hard.
I recall my own GP telling me I'd lose my best friend if I had my Dad with us to care for. (I'd always thought of him as my lifelong best friend).
@Pictor look who's back
Indeed!
Ex-Pats always welcome back to the fold
Dunno about the BRexit tho' it's about 55/45% for it at the moment.
I keep telling myself to recall the polls regarding Millipede! they were totally off-course, so I try to ignore them.
No, not a holiday.. Been really in trouble after surgeries and just in therapy trying to get something right.. Looks like a third surgery is coming at minimum.
So sorry to hear that - had wondered if you'd had more problems! ...and hope any third surgery can put things closer to being 'right' for you!
Remember I'm in expat - not a native - it's funny being a tall white guy in Arizona who is an immigrant - people just turn in and say you know all these immigrants da da da... Right RIGHT>?
Funny thinking of an Englishman in the US being termed an 'immigrant'
The problem with the constitution is they keep changing more and more and instead of removing restrictions - like gay marriage for example.. Another law to say it's legal - rather than removing the law making it illegal - it's nonsensical!
I think people can win based on the constitution - but it was designed for a much smaller country and now with the electoral college and popular vote irrelevance I'm not sure what people want matters.
I thought the whole idea of the constitution was that it would be hard to change any of it, and requires much red tape to do so.
Isn't this why the NRA are so set against any change in Amendment 2 - they think if any restriction on magazines and auto weapons is imposed, that it will gradually chip away at the whole thing?
I have to say I've been so out of the loop - what's this about Obama coming to ruin things?
He's just another who wants us to stay 'in' to suit their own agenda. For a democratic country, we're getting a lot of propaganda and hard persuasion from many quarters.
As for leaving the EU - my thoughts in reading bullet points would be I think if it was left behind then Britain would be the one stronger unit in the whole area - and that should it fail it's not like they'd say no way to joining back, it's not like the collective eu economic average is going anywhere but down should we leave.
That said I am ignorant so there may be a great many things I haven't seen or understood - though job loss estimates argument seems a straw man
A lot of younger people cannot remember the Britain that people like Bob, myself and others knew so well. It needs to get it's pride back, and grow again. I know times are hard and outside influences make it a tough world too, but seeing we recovered from two devastating wars and a couple of bad recessions - surely we can manage without 'help' from Brussels?
