dizzojay | Entries tagged with my mum

I very much feel like I've been neglecting my Livejournal for a while. However, the simple fact is, here's not a lot going on right now. My conventions are over for the year, so I'm not doing any spn-related artwork at the moment, the buns are being cute as usual and life is just ticking along quite nicely without too many bumps in the road.

However, there are a few things going on and so I thought I'd do a little update from Dizzo-land!

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As many of you know I have been rather pre-occupied with my Dad's misadventures over the last couple of years, with his vascular emergency, partial foot amputation and latterly diabetes diagnosis. It's been a bit of a roller-coaster ride.

So, I phoned them up yesterday just to check on them, only to be told that my Mum had taken a fall in her dance fit gym class on Thursday and has broken her wrist.

HOLY CRAP!

She's doing as well as can be expected, and now we are really seeing the benefit of my parents moving into their assisted living place, where she's getting support from the staff and some fellow residents who have really rallied round to offer lifts, laundry services etc.. She has to go back to the hospital on Friday for further Xrays and to get her cast replaced. It may yet be that they need to operate to fix her wrist, but they won't know until Friday when the swelling has gone down a bit and the Xrays show the healing so far. So I'm keeping everything crossed that that won't be necessary.

This is the second time my Mum has broken her left arm - the first time was about 20 years ago (below) slipping on ice.

As many of you know, I've broken my left arm three times.

What is it with my bloody family and left arms????

Greetings, gang!

Well, it's been a crazy couple of weeks, but finally Mum and Dad are in their new home and getting settled. They've had risk assessments done and ad has been issied with a emergency call button on a wrist band. It was hanging on the doorknob of the wall unit when I got there last weekend, but I nagged him sufficiently that it was on his arm by the time I took Mum out to the shops about an hour later.

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So, my parents big move happened on Friday. I said a slightly sad goodbye to their lovely house of 26 years on Friday morning, and was there when they finally moved into their new home on Friday afternoon. They're in their new assisted living apartment; it's lovely and I think they're going to be very happy.

They've got lots of methods of calling for help (cords and buttons all around the place) and they've already met their Care Manager.

I went over to support with the move on Friday, and everything ran on rails. The two young guys who came to do the removals were fabulous. They were so patient and respectful and made the whole process so much easier than it could have been.

Mum and Dad have had a little bit of a teething problem with phones, which is the only negative at the moment. Their landline is not set up yet, and Dad's mobile phone died on Saturday. Typical!

On Sunday I went over to the Island with a new mobile phone. I could only stay an hour or so, and I showed Dad how to make and take calls. Then after I left, he phoned EE to put more credit on his phone and EE won't move forward until they have sent him a validation text for him to return. But he doesn't know how to use texts on the new phone. So now his £10 credit has run out and basically, my parents have no way of contacting the outside world, including me, and I have no way of contacting them.

There is a reception at the complex, but I just KNOW they won't be taking advantage of it because they don't want to 'be a nuisance'.

I can't handle this situation, and I need peace of mind, so I'm going over there again on Wednesday to help them get this situation sorted out! I can't go before then because they wn't have a bed for me to sleep in!.

Once this whole situation is settled, I think Mum and Dad are going to really flourish in this place! So despite this brief bump in the road, I'm still thrilled they made this move!

So my parents' move is finally here.

All the parties involved finally got their shit together, and barring unforeseen disasters, it's all set for Friday next week.

I'm going over there to help on Friday, and I'm so happy that I'm able to contribute because I was convinced it was all going to coincide with the aftermath of my operation when I couldn't drive.

I was over there today and took my Mum shopping, and we bought an ironing board, a mirror, a set of placemats, a duvet cover, pillow cases, a rug and four lightbulbs.

When my Mum started looking at wardrobes I had to call a halt because my car isn't that big!

So this is the end of this chapter of their lives and the beginning of a new one. I'm so relieved for them, and just glad I can be a part of it.

I think last time I mentioned my Mum and Dad here at my journal, I was close to my wits end with the whole situation regarding my Dad's health and the resulting stresses on my Mum. Well, it's fair to say the afore mentioned situation has moved on, and thankfully for the better!

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It's been a wonderful weekend, not least because Saturday was my birthday, but to be honest, this year my birthday took a bit of a back seat. You see it's my Mum's birthday tomorrow, and it's her 80th, so that really was something to celebrate! So because it was on the Saturday, I spent my birthday celebrating my Mum's birthday!

Along with my family, or in particular, Mum's two sisters and my olderst cousin, we'd arranged a surprise dinner for Mum, and had been working on this via Whatsapp for about 6 months. It was in a nice pub called The Vine close to where she and my Dad live, and Mum believed that she was just going there to have dinner with me, Dad and Mr D.

In the end, thankfully, we managed to keep the secret right until the end (despite a couple of near misses), and when she turned up at the pub, she got the surprise of her life (in the best way!)

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So, as you know, I've been planning a few special things for my Mum's 80th birthday which is the 4th of April, but is actually being celebrated on the 1st of April (she just doesn't know that yet!)

I spent ages looking for something unique and (hopefully) tasteful for her, and I found something that I thought was so perfect, I couldn't buy it quick enough.

It came this morning, and I couldn't be happier with it!

It's a gold pendant with eight intertwined rings - each ring signifies a decade, and all the rings are different: gold, silver, different pattern etc to signify that each decade is different. The stone in the middle is her birthstone - April is diamond (isn't that just bloody typical) and because I obviously can't afford a diamond that size, this is a crystal instead!

I love it so much, and can't wait to give it to her!

I may or may not have mentioned here that my Mum's 80th birthday is coming up at the beginning of April. There are a few surprises in the pipeline for her, and something I'm working on at the moment is a 'this is your life' type photo book. I've been communicating with aunts and uncles and cousins to get hold of as many photos of her as I can, and I've been turning the house upside down looking for every photo album I own, old memory sticks, hard drives etc.

In the end, it looks like I'll end up with about a hundred photos of her, which should make for a decent sized book.

I've really loved looking back at all those pictures and remembering good times. I'm so proud of my Mum, at almost 80, she still goes to the gym four times a week and is in fantastic shape - she goes with her sister who's 84!

Here's a few of my favourite pictures of my gorgeous Mummy Dizzo!

With my Dad at our wedding
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Just a warning that if I go a bit radio silence for the next few days, that's because my dear Mum is venturing over from the wilds of the Isle of Wight tomorrow to stay with me until Wednesday, so my time for sitting with my nose in my laptop will be somewhat limited!

If I seem to disappear for a bit, fear not. Normal Jensen-related absurdity will resume mid-next week xx

See, Jensen misses me already ...

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This post is late because, ironically, I was away from my laptop visiting my Mum and Dad on Father's Day!

My Dad is not the tallest of men, but to me he's a giant! A printer by trade, he taught me everything I know about colours and art - it's his passion too. My Father's Day present to him was a book of J M Turner's work. It doesn't matter what I do, he's proud of me.

I love my Mum unconditionally, but she and everyone else knows I'm a Daddy's girl through and through, and I don't care who knows it.

He hates having his picture taken, and he can be a contrary bugger, so the pictures I have of him are few and far between - normally he's behind the camera or lurking somewhere where he can't be photographed - but this is a picture of me with Mum and Dad at my wedding in 1994, and it's a picture I love very much because it is such a wonderful rarity!

( Happy Father's Day Dad!! )

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Dizzojay's Dean Dreams

Entries tagged with my mum

Dizzo update

Parents...

Hello waves

The big move

It's Moving time!

Dizzo update...

A weekend to remember!

Mum's birthday

My Mum

Radio Silence ...

To My Dad for Father's Day