This is getting to be a habit.
Mother has been back in hospital to have her medications sorted out. It was decided to insert a heart pacemaker, done. Should reduce her medications. It has been decided to insert a stent in her left leg, after having one inserted in her right leg during her last hospital stay. Maybe today, Thursday.
Sister called Mother in hospital. Sister thanked me for calming her, Sister, down. She is having a rough time. She called Mother at hospital and Mother ranted on and on about a phone call from her friend and then inappropriately about hospital staff. Mother can be so untactful with 'they're one of those Thais or Filipinos or something like that'. "I think Dr Saffa is an Arab, or something like the that'. Not relevant Mother. Sister hung up the phone to Mother. She told me she will call her back after she finished the call with me. I said to her, you are getting like R. Don't let her rattle you or get to you. Put the phone down for a couple of minutes and return. She will still be talking. She is 87, which is not an excuse but cut her some slack.
I really feel for Sister though. Her wife Bone Doctor had a hysterectomy and ended up in ICU with extreme bleeding. She is ok now, and should leave hospital at the weekend but apparently can't drive for six weeks.
Another lad at Sister's school has suicided, fifteen years old. Without permission, the evil Murdoch media empire published the details with the conservative opposition party jumping on the story as a mark of the effect of lockdown is having on people. That the boy suicided may have been related to lockdown or not is a cheap point to make and may or may not be true. The family rightly keeps a dignified silence. Sister managed to have a social media post with details removed. I didn't ask but I don't think he was one of her students. She teaches 16 and 17 years olds.
Sister's daughter Jo had her second Pfizer vaccination early this week and was unwell for a couple of days but is fine now. She is really missing school and like many children, quite over learning from home. Sister has been taking her usual extreme amount of exercise, painting the eaves at the front of their house and teaching online three days a week, as she did in person at school.
Back home, our lockdown has been extended for a further three weeks.
Hasn't that cheered you all up no end!
Lets look at a happy picture, well not so happy for canal boat workers and owners, as trains killed off canal boats. It's a famous picture I had not seen until recently. I love it. Just not on my walls, thanks. I hope you can see it large as I can. Have you English types seen the picture before?