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What a start to the year
On 02/01/2014 10:42, Sacha wrote:
On 2014-01-01 23:08:58 +0000, Spider said: On 01/01/2014 22:34, Sacha wrote: On 2014-01-01 21:11:29 +0000, David Hill said: On 01/01/2014 20:34, Spider wrote: On 01/01/2014 16:46, sacha wrote: On 2014-01-01 11:12:40 +0000, David Hill said: Happy new year folks, What a start, already with last nights rain/hail we have had 1.2 inches and water is running everywhere, pouring off the fields above and just rushing down the track like a river. It's a good job we are high up and on sloping ground so no chance of major flooding. Hope no one gets washed away over the next few days. David @ a very wet side of Swansea Bay. Foul and disgusting weather here, even dripping through onto the stone flags where a porch joins an outside door! It takes some rain and wind power to achieve that! We had to forego the New Year's Day flower count! Foul weather here, too. Ugh!. It wasn't until it was dark that I remembered the NYD Flower count. First time I've missed it. Mind you, I did have a minor emergency earlier in the day which completely distracted me. We'll all have to wait for next NYD now. I'm sure a day or so late wont matter that much. I hope Spider's emergency really was minor and while I won't be able to do ours tomorrow, thanks to family commitments, I'll hope to do it on Friday, weather permitting. Bless you, Sacha! It was nothing to harm either of us, thankfully, but a terrified elderly neighbour in the realms of Alzheimers with Lewy Bodies who turned up on our doorstep. Not for the first time, poor lady. She was in a dreadful state due to a totally imaginary but nightmarish scenario. I spent some time with her, and eventually her daughter came to rescue her. Daughter and I both stayed with her until she came to her true mind and was fit enough to go home. We are grateful that she always remembers to come here. We don't mind, although it is very sad to see an old friend so affected. It is good to be the port in a friend's often bizarre storm. We just hope she has some calm days now. Thank you for your kind thoughts, though :~). Poor old lady, it must be terrifying to be in the grip of something imaginary but so very real to the sufferer. My grandmother started to slip back into the past when she was in her 80s but nothing terrible like that and at 95, my mother is now extremely forgetful, even of members of her family but again, is living quite happily and peacefully at home with carers and without any 'terrors'. Your neighbour is so lucky to have you and as you say, to remember to come to you when she has one of these episodes. One old lady we had as a neighbour and for whom we were her first responders and an almost daily port of call for a chat, or an evening glass of something, became completely disorientated and almost wild with fear when her family moved her into sheltered housing. It was totally unsuitable for her real needs and led rapidly to a secure unit because she deteriorated so quickly. Unfortunately, we were in NZ when it all happened and came back to find it all done and dusted and nothing we could do. She died two years later, having had a hellish time. How awful! I hope that doesn't happen to our friend/neighbour. She really couldn't cope with it, and they can't medicate her for it now without inducing a stroke:~(. Her family are really good with her, but both have to work, which makes it difficult. Thankfully, they trust us and have made us keyholders, so we can deal with most emergencies. I just hope she doesn't have an episode when we are out. I don't know what she would do. Anyway, panic over for now. -- Spider. On high ground in SE London gardening on heavy clay |
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