I have been here with Mum for a week. When I visited last she was very weak and I felt she would not last the month. I returned to Melbourne and sorted my affairs as much as possible and returned to Mum within a week. Since I arrived and started to do all the cooking and housework she has been getting more rest. The oncologist prescribed steroids and they have made a difference too. She is coughing less and eating more. That combined with company and plenty of champagne( medicinal of course) and her spirits have lifted considerably. It was hard to see her so discouraged. We have done a lot of talking( exhausting actually and a reminder I can be this bad too!), reminiscing and laughing and we are all feeling a lot better.
I had an accident with a carving knife yesterday and cut myself badly so that I am now sporting 5 stitches in my left hand. It was deep but no nerve damage or tendon damage was sustained thank goodness. It has meant we are both having a slow day.
Yesterday was Mum's painting workshop day and the 'girls' came from 10-3pm. These women have been learning from Mum for twenty years and it is now just a painting group of friends. They all paint in her (garage) studio. It is a happy group and fortunately Julie an ex nurse, took me to the doctor because I didn't want to bleed over my brother's BMW. He would not have been impressed.
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