The Random Thread

[cromwell]

This is the way to start your day - a bit of brisk exercise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0SjXr8xFNo

[Kaz]

Not sure who was more scared!

[meriad]

oh poor bear, but

[JanB]

The moon is stunning tonight

[JanB]

I've just ordered four more shrubs

[cromwell]

We had a bit of drama yesterday.

One of our neighbours down the road, David, is suffering from dementia. He and his wife still get out regularly but she has to be careful with him as he can wander off and get lost. A couple of years ago I brought him home when he was two or three miles away and walking away from his home. Other people have brought him home including on one occasion my wife and her sister, who had to support him to get him home.

David and his wife have carers coming in too. But yesterday one of them left having finished her shift, but forgot to lock the front door. David's wife was upstairs and when she came down he had gone; no sign of him anywhere. This would be about four in the afternoon. Cue the carers reappearing, the police turned up, neighbours went looking for him, the lot. Social media got involved; the local fb site had his picture on it and a description of what had happened.

Eventually at nine in the evening the police found David wandering down Westgate in Wakefield near the prison, where he used to work teaching the prisoners a trade. I can only think that he thought he was going to work. It's not clear how he got there, he had no bus pass or money and he can only walk very slowly, but there he was.

So a happy ending, well done to the police but the stress on his wife must have been off the scale.

[Kaz]

Dementia is an awful thing

[JanB]

Your poor neighbour Crommers.

We had to put Grumpy's mum in a home, towards the end. His sister just couldn't cope.


Awful illness.

[JanB]

We had lightening, we had thunder, but all at different times

But we've had a lot of lovely rain

[Workingman]

Cromwell, we had a similar thing when we moved house in the late 80s.

I used to take the dog out for his last walk before going to bed. On a foggy and frosty evening there was this apparition with white hair, full nightdress, pink dressing gown and pink fluffy slippers shuffling towards me. It turned out to be an old neighbour from across the street.

I took her home and when we got there the kitchen was full of steam from the kettle. They had been watching TV and he was reading a book but fell asleep. She went out to make a cuppa and just kept going.

Fortunately they had an emergency cord and shortly after I pulled it the phone rang - it was social services. I explained the situation and some time later two carers turned up and took control.

A few days after there was a knock on the door. The carer informed me that they had secured sheltered housing for the old couple because they were not up to looking after themselves, but in the meantime they were under 24 hour cover.

It frightened me thinking about what might have happened to the old lady had we not bumped into each other on that foggy and frosty night.