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Feb. 24th, 2024 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyMy mom has now been home four days. She can walk, with the aid of a walker, but suffers enough unsteadiness that she needs to have someone around when she does to make sure she doesn't fall, which would be very bad indeed. I have spent the week teleworking and taking care of her, with my sister coming in to take care of the big things, particularly the ones that involve contacting other people and getting things out of them, since neither of us are good at that at all. I have learned this week how to make both coffee and tea (and am, I'm afraid, now even more revolted by the former than I was already) and how to boil eggs.
Make the house navigable for her also meant moving two of our book cases, and moving the books both in them and around them to wherever they were not immediately in the way. In the process, we've both had to face that our ten-thousand-item library collection really does need weeding. I'm not even sure how we do that when we don't have things like collection guidelines or numbers of checkouts to rely upon, but we'll have to figure it out. After she's able to walk on her own again.
She is showing a few signs of improvement. A therapist would no doubt improve that, but getting people in has stalled a bit. I'll be going back into the office on Monday, though even then I'll have to adjust my schedule at least temporarily, so my sister and I can take turns staying with her.
Still, I managed to finish my sister's Christmas gift to me, The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins, yesterday. It's a pretty good depiction of a possible outcome of climate catastrophe where humanity survives, but learns precious little. Also of generational trauma, and what happens when those who do wrong are not called to account, themes that feel even more relevant in our current times even outside the climate crisis. Also, the last page mentions a D&D character called Alludra. That could just be a coincidence, but hey.
Make the house navigable for her also meant moving two of our book cases, and moving the books both in them and around them to wherever they were not immediately in the way. In the process, we've both had to face that our ten-thousand-item library collection really does need weeding. I'm not even sure how we do that when we don't have things like collection guidelines or numbers of checkouts to rely upon, but we'll have to figure it out. After she's able to walk on her own again.
She is showing a few signs of improvement. A therapist would no doubt improve that, but getting people in has stalled a bit. I'll be going back into the office on Monday, though even then I'll have to adjust my schedule at least temporarily, so my sister and I can take turns staying with her.
Still, I managed to finish my sister's Christmas gift to me, The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins, yesterday. It's a pretty good depiction of a possible outcome of climate catastrophe where humanity survives, but learns precious little. Also of generational trauma, and what happens when those who do wrong are not called to account, themes that feel even more relevant in our current times even outside the climate crisis. Also, the last page mentions a D&D character called Alludra. That could just be a coincidence, but hey.
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