Hi gals, it's been over a month since I wrote about Mum sorry I haven't been on here much.

Last Sunday she fell in her room at the nursing home and broke her hip. She wasn't in too much pain, but we didn't know she was actually in pain till Tuesday when we had to get a mobile x-ray person come in to x-ray her and that's when the staff realised she had broken her hip. So off to hospital Wednesday morning. I went in and had to wait nearly 2 hours before I could see her. I stayed there till 5.30 and came home. Thursday I was back there for 7 hours and they said she would be operated on, so she had been fasting and I left again at 5.30. At 6.36 that night I got a call saying that they weren't going to operate till Friday! I was very disappointed, as was Mum, I am sure. She got to have dinner at least.

Anyway, she was operated on Friday about lunchtime and I was waiting when she came back into her room. Sh wasn't too happy as there were 3 men in with her - all with broken hips and with Dementia! It was interesting listening to them! he he he!!!

Mum doesn't remember how she fell and says that she hasn't got a broken hip. I asked her to put her hand alongside her left hip and then she grimaces, but still says she doesn't have a broken hip. She has actually had a Hemiarthroplasty (check it out on the internet).

The staff have lowered her bed, put in an air mattress (automatic which has individual pockets that change tension, there are crash mats either side of her bed and motion sensors. One of the surgeons rang me on Wednesday to ask if I would give permission for her to go onto Aspro for 6 weeks due to her 2nd brain bleed, I of course said yes.

She looked dreadful on Friday and I said I'd wash her hair and put on some makeup for her on Saturday. Ben (our son) and his partner Mia came into see Mum and he took lots of pictures. She still rejects the idea that she has broken her hip and kept telling us so. In the end we just didn't mention it

She is sleeping a lot and the staff at the nursing home have yet to get her walking. She has stood up with the aid of a high walking frame and it's going to be hard for her to rehabilitate as she doesn't understand any directions now. It's just so sad watching her deteriorate. Anyway, I go in 3 times a week now and try to get her to eat something, she has lost a lot of weight, but is on Ensure to give her an appetite. That comes and goes too, some days she will eat really well, then others not so much. I'll continue to go as long as I can. Love Chris

Picture of her once hair and makeup was done. Ben was making us laugh. You can see how much weight she has lost in her arms and shoulders.