A strange day........................

I cant decide if it was good or bad, such a mix of both.
I woke up realising I had a sore throat and was sniffing and sneezing, but thought hey, quiet day, working at home this morning, it'll be ok. Well almost as soon as I switched my work phone on it went mad with a fairly major problem, not mine in any way, but with repercussions for the wider world. I didn't sort it, not sure it was mine to sort, but I did spend a load of time telling everyone it had gone wrong and be warned. Then another panic which I did sort. Then it was time to drive to Trowbridge..................
Paul's mum had another episode on tuesday, less than a week after the last one- the GP who saw her this time isn't convinced this was a TIA but then he wasn't very helpful at all! Anyway Social Care were due to visit to reassess and I offered to go over to give Val moral support, and Sarah ended up coming to support me!
The Social Worker was excellent (Sarah was impressed!), the OT did her stuff, the Nurse was out of her depth (the SW and I did try to help her out :P). we now have a care plan that, if its agreed, will put a live in carer in24/7, with only a minimal top up by Paul's parents, and then only if the SW's case for both their needs counting doesn't work. The problem is that right now Social Care say she is a health problem as she has a UTI, but the aforementioned useless GP says there's nothing wrong with her she's just old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So Paul and Val get to try and hold things together with 2 nights covered by Social Care (cos the SW is brill and wheedled it out of her manager) then, God willing, care plan kicks in in about 10 days.
The really special bit was that I had a few moments with Paul's mum, alone. I asked her if she was ok with all this, she said she knew she was in God's hands, but that she had told Him she had had enough..............I told her that it was fine, we would miss her desperately but she wasn't to linger on our account, that we would take care of each other. I then got to thank her for being an amazing Spiritual mum to me. We shared a few tears as you can imagine. I don't know how much longer we have but too often we lose someone and think, if only I had had chance to tell them what they meant to me, well today I had that chance and it was very special.

So a mixed day, we are surviving this roller coaster but its tough, thank God that He is carrying us.