Sunday 17 September 2023

The Peacock 1003

 The next several posts appear to be mostly random visits and adventures and vigils in the extended care unit where Chelsea's mother now is residing.  She has to share a room with three other women, but according to Chelsea appears reasonably content where she is, but they have to watch her constantly for her tendency to wander.  The mother has a name, by the way.  Joan.  It also turns out they are British minor aristocracy.  Her father's title is Lord Winston.  Which makes his daughter Lady Chelsea?  I am going to ask her about this.  She would fit right in with the piss elegant monarchists of St James.

"What I have had to  live with and bear as courageously as possible", she writes, "is that on three occasions my mother was taken from me.  When she paired off with Dorothy.  Then when she lost her memory and I became for her a benign if not benevolent stranger sitting with her for hours every day in the nursing home.  And then finally, when covid hit last year, and we lost her altogether..."

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