Tuples and Attributes

I see it’s been just over six months since my last post, which is certainly not what I had planned when I started the year.

In mid-January, however, I walked back into the house after an errand and my mom looked at me and said, “Who are you?”. This from a woman who at 97 had been showing no signs of any form of dementia. The episode didn’t last long but did lead me to put in a frantic call to our doctor. When I described what was happening, he immediately said she probably had a urinary tract infection (UTI). I thought he must be nuts or had misunderstood what I said but found out that this type of episode is very common in elderly people with UTIs.

Mom started on antibiotics immediately, of course, but she really had a hard time of it. I spent one night holding her hand, sure she was not going to see the morning. She became extremely weak, to the point she couldn’t even stand up by herself. When I had to leave the house, I hired people to look after her, which is an exhausting process in itself as I had to keep instructing new people.

Mom has now fully recovered but for two months or so maintaining this blog was more work than I could deal with. And then I just fell out of the habit as I didn’t seem to have anything to say. Hoping to do better in the future!