Extreme Knitting Redhead: Nearly at the end of 2024

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Nearly at the end of 2024

Crikey, where did 2024 go? I can hardly believe it will be 2025 very soon. I'll actually be glad to see the back of this year as it's been a challenge from start to finish - problems with the house, workmen who don't always turn up, Mike being poorly with yet another operation looming for 2025, an injury that put me out of action but thankfully not for too long and i only managed to run 6 marathons which is the lowest number for many years! I think that'll do thank you very much and I'm looking forward to a peaceful and uneventful 2025 - Hahaha, as if! I started taking lots of photos but then didn't upload them so I must try harder or my poor blog will just disappear. So I'll start with photos I've taken recently. I was tidying up my work space which was full of yarn, knitting and crochet and came across some leftover hexagons from another project and decided to make some sort of throw. I used Rowan Summer tweed as I still have a quite of lot of it in my stash and I do enjoy working with it. This obviously needed cat inspection and directions!!!

I thought it might be fun to make it into a roundish shape and I'm quite pleased with how it's come out - still needs blocking and ends sewn in but you get the idea. More to come soon and I'm going to try and update my blog each week.......especially as there are still a few days of 2024 left.

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Mum's Story

In 1997 my mother, then aged 81, had a series of minor strokes. Shortly after that we started to notice behavioural changes notably memory loss and confusion over everyday items. We thought it was just old age finally catching up with her. Then she started wandering and had violent mood swings. Although she already lived with us it became obvious that she couldn't be left alone for long and so I left my job to care for her. The next few years saw a gradual decline into the blackness that is 'vascular dementia'. My normally placid mum became violent and aggressive. She had psychotic incidents where she would see imaginary people (children hiding in her wardrobe, Russians sitting on the stairs, women stealing her clothes) and she would shout at them and sometimes throw things too. She was so convincing that we used to go and check that there wasn't anyone there! When my sister died mum did not know who Judy was or that she was her daughter. There came a point when I suddenly realised she no longer knew that I was her daughter and this was a terrible time for me. In the last 2 years that she lived with us, life for us all became almost unbearable as she needed 24 hour care - she couldn't be left alone at all because she would either wander off or hurt herself, she never slept for more than 30 minutes at a time during the night, she became incontinent and incapable of doing anything for herself. Finally my husband and I realised that we could no longer provide her with the care that she needed and she went to live in a special care home where the team did a splendid job caring for her in the last few months of her life. There she lived a zombified existence unaware of who she was, what she was or where she was. It was heartbreaking. She died in March 2005, the day after her 89th birthday.

Thank you for taking the time to read mum's story and I hope you'll dig deep and sponsor me using the link below to help find a way of beating this destructive disease.