No Fooling!

Apparently Mother had another fall last night. The Duchess has been communicating with the nurse administrator about this. Mother had a bump on her head and skinned her leg, but was not seriously hurt--it seems she overbalanced while sitting in her recliner and sort of slid to the floor, so there wasn't too much damage. They didn't send her to the hospital, but just kept her under observation. She said she was reaching for something, but she may have been trying to get up. She tends to forget that she can't do that. She didn't push her call button. The Duchess and I have both been feeling that another fall was inevitable. I didn't expect it to happen so soon, because I didn't think she actually had the strength to get up far enough to fall down. Her mental confusion is such that she is very likely to fall, because she doesn't remember what she can't do. It's certainly an issue to discuss at her care conference, but I wonder if they will have any solution. We hve to try to get her the best possible care for the future, but it seems that care can only go so far. I am troubled and worried. The Duchess will visit her tomorrow, and we will see her on Wednesday.

It was another cold and gloomy day. We went out in the backyard and took some measurements for making fence panels out of the roll of wire fencing that the Sparrowhawk mistakenly bought for use as porch screen. Last year I just used it to enclose the garden beds in an informal manner, but it was cumbersome and not very convenient. If we can staple it to some furring strips and nail the strips together to make fence panels, I'll be able to remove them more easily for weeding and so forth. We're excited about this project, although I suspect we'll screw it up in various ways and it will probably be a bit of a kludge when finished. Nevertheless, we advance boldly. The Sparrowhawk went out and got the wood strips, nails, and staples.