Lockdown Diary - Friday 23rd October 2020
Despite living under the restrictions that lockdown imposes, the weeks seem to be flying by at the moment, so here we are at the start of Friday again. I don't think they're flying by because I'm having a wonderful time, far from it. I'm often painfully reminded that I / we (my sons included) have not managed to get away at all this year, and won't have done by the time it ends. The biggest challenge to going away - if that meant all of us - is how is my wife would be cared for whilst we're away. As things stand, especially given the government's treatment of care homes, I'm not happy with the idea of her going to a care home for respite, assuming they'd even accept her. The alternative would be to have someone live here with her, but when I've looked in to that, it's a lot more complex than you might imagine, and, in reality, it would probably mean that there would be long periods each day when she'd be left alone, though not at night ...