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As of this morning, Mum is once again in the emergency room of the Redlands Hospital. Mum was taken to emergency on Thursday because her almost-perpetual wheeze had resurfaced and she was having trouble breathing. She was taken back to SDAAC on Friday and then came to Bunker Road yesterday to spend the weekend at…

After a lot of false starts and some confusion, Mum has finally been transferred into what I hope will be her final home. The Adventist Aged Care facility at Victoria Point is only a kilometre from the house at Victoria Point so it’s nice and convenient. Mum would benefit from visitors as she’s trying to…

I wanted to do a blog post on ACATs. Because they are a thing that you have to navigate in this whole aged-care environment thing we’re trying to work our way through. The problem is that Aged Care Assessments (ACAT) aren’t very interesting. And like most of our aged-care system, they’re also impenetrable for anybody…

Bags packed, farewells made, bed ready, RFDS flight scheduled. Dad rang me yesterday afternoon to say he was expecting Mum to be picked up very soon and needed me to come and pick him up from the Redlands hospital when he called. Not half an hour later, Redlands hospital rang to say the the bed…

The plan was for Mum to have her final kidney stone operation last week. By coincidence, it coincided with my trip to Townsville to drive Mum’s car to Brisbane in preparation for her move. So I flew up on Thursday night, was there to see her before she went under the knife on Friday and…

Nothing my Mum likes more than a cup of tea and a view. Thinking of her this morning even if i couldn’t stay in Townsville for the actual day. Mum’s in hospital this morning with an infection after her operation on Friday. So not the happiest Mother’s Day. Like every holiday, this one can be…

Big news! I’ve been dying to share but now it’s finally confirmed. Mum is moving back to Brisbane and going into an amazing nursing home in Victoria Point. She’s finally having her kidney stones removed this week and then will be transferred by air ambulance to a local Brisbane hospital before being discharged to the…

Ask us, any of us, the question and we’ll all give the same answer. Mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, niece, nephew, grandchild. If you’re a member of the Ensor family, you only have one answer and it’s the same. For four generations. Where’s your favourite place? Through the years, the decades, the generations, we’ve…

It’s a beautiful, tropical morning here in Townsville. The sun is just rising, the birds are making a fuss and I can hear the sound of the house’s water feature behind me in the inviting pool. I’m sipping my necessary tea while I’m writing this and planning to go to the hospital soon. For most…

The surgery seems to have been a success: the blockage is cleared and Mum should be able to pass the stones normally now she has the stent in. She does still have kidney stones, though, and if they don’t pass normally in a few weeks then we will be looking at more invasive surgery then.…