New Year
I find Christmas quite stressful these days. Ma and I had already decided we wouldn't go to Bro's on Christmas Day. So when SiL tested positive for Covid late om 23rd, I'd already catered for cooking for the two of us. Pa's place are following the guidelines on visitors, so as one of his named people, I saw him on Christmas Eve after I dropped pressies of at Bro's front door.
I went back to Dav to de-stress, then back to Ma's on NYE. SiL is still +ve, although the rest of the household are all still -ve. Bro's 10 day isolation period ends tomorrow, but he's still avoiding people until he's required to go back to work (you can't deliver fizzy pop products to foodstores while WFH)
Saw Pa again this afternoon. He seems pretty well settled in and now he's there permanently, we need to clear the flat and sort out what he needs and what he wants to be more at home. I've ordered assorted name labels and will have to sew tapes into his socks, as he's complaining of them going missing. Considering how poorly and sorry for himself he was in the summer, it's good to see him looking so well. Probably a lot to do with him eating more because he's not forgetting to make meals. But however well and settled he is, it was utterly gut wrenching when he said - perfectly conversationally - "I really don't want you to leave". Then he ate a bowl of strawberry yoghurt with his tea and declared it "not disgusting". All the things he hasn't eaten in the last 50 or more years are now fine because a) someone sticks it in front of him b) he's not overly sure what it is and c) he's forgotten he ever decided he didn't eat it. As someone who claimed to eat anything, he had a very distict list of things he wouldn't eat if he was aware of what they were!
Home tomorrow, werk on Tuesday. Now the heating is fixed, I will have to tidy my desk so I can WFH, although due to training requirements, it would be better if I can be in the office for at least the next week. And as far as MH goes, WFH is not the best option.
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I went back to Dav to de-stress, then back to Ma's on NYE. SiL is still +ve, although the rest of the household are all still -ve. Bro's 10 day isolation period ends tomorrow, but he's still avoiding people until he's required to go back to work (you can't deliver fizzy pop products to foodstores while WFH)
Saw Pa again this afternoon. He seems pretty well settled in and now he's there permanently, we need to clear the flat and sort out what he needs and what he wants to be more at home. I've ordered assorted name labels and will have to sew tapes into his socks, as he's complaining of them going missing. Considering how poorly and sorry for himself he was in the summer, it's good to see him looking so well. Probably a lot to do with him eating more because he's not forgetting to make meals. But however well and settled he is, it was utterly gut wrenching when he said - perfectly conversationally - "I really don't want you to leave". Then he ate a bowl of strawberry yoghurt with his tea and declared it "not disgusting". All the things he hasn't eaten in the last 50 or more years are now fine because a) someone sticks it in front of him b) he's not overly sure what it is and c) he's forgotten he ever decided he didn't eat it. As someone who claimed to eat anything, he had a very distict list of things he wouldn't eat if he was aware of what they were!
Home tomorrow, werk on Tuesday. Now the heating is fixed, I will have to tidy my desk so I can WFH, although due to training requirements, it would be better if I can be in the office for at least the next week. And as far as MH goes, WFH is not the best option.
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