Vera

Posted on 2008/10/25 10:21:35 (October 2008).

[Sunday 19th October]
We came back from Guildford in the morning and got back to London just before 11. We decided to do some shopping on the way back to the flat, and queued up with a surprising number of other people to wait for Sainsbury's to open at 11. This felt rather depressing - what a stranglehold supermarkets have on us and all that.

Spent most of the afternoon at the flat.

Vera, my Grandmother, is not very well at the moment. She's had a number of relatively manageable health issues for which she has been receiving medication, but it appears either the combination of these problems, or the combination of the tablets she's taking for them, is having a large net effect on her general wellbeing, and she is not her usual self. Above all she has become prone to bouts of anxiety. She lives with Robin (my Uncle), but he's out at work 9 to 5, and Vera is not really up to being left by herself right now.

We're hoping this is more a short term effect of the particular combination of tablets she's taken, and at least one of these is known to actually make matters worse for the first couple of weeks before it stabilises. So fingers crossed this is just a temporary rough patch.

So I offered to take a couple of days off work and look after her. I decided to go tonight, and stay until Tuesday night. So I got on a train some time around 4:30, and was in Abergavenny some time after 7.

On arrival I had dinner with Vera and Robin. On the plus side Vera is definitely eating and sleeping very well, probably a side effect of her medication, and these are two things she has struggled with on and off for years. It was a fairly quiet evening from then on, Vera mostly dozed off.

I had been prepared to find Vera in a pretty awful state, so she certainly wasn't as bad as I had worried she might be - mainly very sedate and quiet, and a bit unstable on her feet - not really her usual bubbly self.

Again though, fingers crossed we are hoping this is just a short term thing.

I hope that Vera will recover soon. Please send her all the bestest regards, as you know I really think she's really a great person and I keep in my heart all the times that we spent together in Wales at her house...

Posted by Lox at 2008/10/26 02:32:24.

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