Foreign Perspectives

Over the last year that Mum’s spent with us we’ve really began to notice that she’s slipping into old age and sometimes it seems that she’s doing it at quite an alarming rate.

For instance, in 2008 we all went on holiday to Venice and she was able, with not too much difficulty, to follow us round. Granted, not at a fantastic speed, but she managed it. Just over a year later it’s obvious that she’d have no chance of being able to do that as her walking ability has dropped dramatically in the last year.

She’s also gotten into the habit of repeating things that can get seriously annoying at times. We don’t really need to know that it’s rainy/sunny/whatever every 10 minutes or so! Whether she’s been doing that for a while is difficult to say as she wasn’t with us constantly before 2008 and indeed with us being over in France for the previous five years we didn’t get the chance to notice that anyway.

Related to that is the forgetfulness or rather the losing of the sense of time. On Saturday she was all set to go to church for instance. That’s fairly new though but I guess it’s something else that we’ll notice more as time goes on.

She’s not “old” generally but seems to be heading that way going by some of the things that we’ve been seeing.