The Week that NEVER Ended.. but mostly a great week!

Why did this week, never seem to end?  Is it a new week or is Sunday the end of the week?  Questions that make me think.  The week started off great! The week ended great...  where did it go wrong?  I have made some amazing great friends from Declan's school.  Honest, kind and real...  they are true women.  They are the ones that keep it real.  Single mums raising their kids.  Have learned a lot of what is what here.  Seems that every Monday we meet up for coffee at Wetherspoons....Here is what it used to be, and look like:  A cinema...

Here it is now

It's open at 8am for coffee and breakfast.  Yes, there is a group of locals that are drinking alcohol at 9am.  I shake my head and have been informed, by Sharren, "it's the European way!"  OK, but, I digress...  It's not what we do, we sit and have an English breakfast of eggs, toast, bacon, baked beans, grilled tomato, Irish Pork sausage, and a cup of coffee...  filtered coffee.  Here is where I am getting so much information.  Where to get my groceries...  where to get haircuts, pedis, manis, the list goes on and on.  It is a safety zone for us.  We can discuss anything with each other and there is no judgement.  We can just be.  

Tuesday - Friday just went crazy....  Crazy with Nursing Home search for my mother-in-law.  It's not like the US, where you find a home and you can put your mum or dad there.  It's far more complicated.  There are different homes, residential, EMI residential (EMI - for those with dementia that do NOT need nursing care), Nursing and EMI nursing.)  My sweet mother-in-law has been assessed as Nursing.  So we have been searching and researching and looking.  There are NOT a lot to choose from.  If you find one they have to assess and see if they can accommodate her.  Well, we found one, and sadly, we lost it, as no decision could be made in time by other persons, no more space and they won't rethink it.  (I can't even begin to explain the anger that has this me in).  We found 2 others, they cannot accommodate.  Fast forward to Friday.  Visiting Joyce at the hospital, and the discharge nurse comes charging towards me with a bitter and nasty look.  Neris is her name, and she threatened that if one more place refuses Joyce, we will have to start looking at EMI Nursing.  This is not an option.  I have now gone all Jersey/Texan on this woman, in a kind way.  

EMI Nursing is fine for those with severe dementia and those that have wild outbursts, and can be physically aggressive and verbally.  Joyce is NOT this way.  She sits in a chair, is blind from the stroke, and can only walk 10 feet in 30 minutes with some assistance.  We seem to have one more chance, on Monday another home is going to assess her..  please, I am asking you, pray.  That is all we can do.  PRAY!  Pray that they can take her.  Our hope is to get her out of the hospital this week.  

I will have to write more on this nursing home saga...  but the remainder of the week was fantastic.  Yes, Nursing Home saga continues, but, we must Carry On and Keep Strong.

Friday we went out with friends and the kids to celebrate Chinese New Year.  The Year of the Horse.  Had a simple meal and a glass of wine.  Saturday is when we go forward...  to the national sport of Rugby.  Went to Wetherspoons, http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-picture-house

We sat and watched Wales beat Italy with food, wine and laughs.  It may of been cold, wet and windy outside, but it was cozy and fantastic company inside.  We met more locals and honestly, no better place to meet locals, have laughs and cheers with people than the local pub.  Nice, fun, and good laughs.  Great food and great company.  The staff here are amazing and helpful and just nice!  

Tonight is Super Bowl Sunday...  I sit here in bed watching the game oh it's late here, and the game hasn't started yet.  I am missing the commercials and the parties. It's okay though...  I have Wales and the Rugby. 

More in the morning...  I am trying to stay alert and awake.  I have one thing left to say:  GO BRONCOS!  GO WALES!