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Post date: 13-Apr-2020 18:29:01
The Care Home staff think that Aunty Dot would be better off in hospital, but - in true Aunty Dot style - she's refusing to go. Lucy rang us and asked us to have a word with her, because Ruth is going frantic with being unable to go to see her and imagining the worst. Mind you, she may not be wrong there. anyway, we called Aunty Dot up on Skype and had a conversation with her, despite her clearly having trouble breathing. She's adamant that, at her age, there's no justification for her taking up a hospital bed that could be used for someone younger. You have to admire her, although I'd much rather she agreed to letting them take her in. I hope she realises what she may be letting herself in for by insisting on continuing to be treated in the Home. But I expect she does. After being a nurse for so many years, she must have plenty of experience of people dying from pneumonia and COPD, including from before modern oxygen therapy was available.
Jonah has finished the first draft of his story about the murder in the anti-nuclear demo in 1982. We could none of us settle to do anyhting this evening, so he read aloud from it to keep our minds off Aunty Dot.
I'm also worried about Stan and Sylvia: they're no spring chickens either! I've been doing their shopping for them so they don't have to go out at all, but apart from seeing them on the doorstep every week, the only contact they have with anyone is by phone. I've decided to organise a broadband connection from them, so that they'll be able to join in our Zoom meetings with Lucy and connect with people from church.