Love, Poetry and Revolution - Monday 6th March 2023
I do like Mondays. It's one of the best days of the week for me as I have all the time to myself, or at least I usually do. Today, however, there are a couple of things this morning which take precedence. I've had to make an urgent appointment with NRS Healthcare to come out and fix E's air mattress. Some of the cells aren't inflating properly and the carers think there's a puncture. Because E is bedbound, they insist on fixing it today, which is good, the main challenge being that E will need to be hoisted out of the bed, which needs two carers, so NRS are diverting an engineer to be here for around 11, when two of the carers are here. At 11:30 son #1 has a Zoom call with his university well-being officer and a course tutor to agree a path for him to get back to uni in September. Q is attending with him as a family representative and bringing her professional expertise to bear. The man from NRS arrives early, before the carers and opts to wait in his van, which i...