Following my Grandma’s death there were things to be sorted out. My mum spent the couple of days immediately following my Grandma’s death staying at her flat sorting out the will and funeral arrangements. There is, apparently, quite a bit of running around to do. The funeral happened a couple of weeks later.
I think the last time I did a proper update was in September after my visit to see my Grandma in hospital, so I’ll start off there. Please excuse me if I repeat anything I said in that post – I’ve no read it recently.
At the time she was in a ward Middlesbrough. The ward wasn’t the best place for her – there was nothing to do, she was getting bored. Although she was ill she was still basically mentally fit when prompted. Yes, she couldn’t always remember things very clearly, but she was a very clever woman and when we visited as a family and talked to her about things she enjoyed (we did the crossword together, for example), she was fine. On that visit we found some photos from her first wedding in the cupboard and my mum took those with her on the next visit to show her, and she remembered quite a bit about it, although couldn’t remember where abouts in Leeds the photos had been taken. So my mum kept on at the hospital to get her moved somewhere nicer, somewhere nearer home, to the hospital I was born in, the little town hospital in Guisborough. [read more]