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Last time I was in Townsville I attended the family meeting. While that was a few weeks ago now, I thought I’d still put up my notes from it as it will provide some insight into Mum’s progress eight months in. Firstly, Mum’s pubic fracture has finally healed and her most-recent CT scan on Friday…

As you know by now, Mum is a physio pin-up girl. Mum has good days and bad days in terms of her ‘Ts’ but on a good day she wrote the following poem. It’s very much a work in progress but showed her positive and enthusiastic state of mind at the time. In the past,…

It’s National Stroke Week this week and the Stroke Foundation is out and about trying to raise awareness of stroke in the Australian community. The website is here.

It’s now time for Mum to head home. As mentioned on the blog over the past few months, Mum’s Allied Health team is of the opinion her progress has plateaued and it’s time for her to transition. The current plan is for her to go home to the Townsville house in early October (about four weeks). This…

Nothing Mum likes more than her Sunday morning tea in the lovely gardens at SACU. Dad reads her the paper and she looks for imaginary possums, bilbys and koalas in the trees and gardens. I took this photo of Mum in her brand new shirt, which she loves. She’s bright and happy this morning and…

As you’ve probably guessed from the recent posts, Mum is still in SACU and still doing rehab but there’s broad agreement her progress has slowed and it won’t be long before more permanent arrangements will need to be made. Discussions have already begun with the centre and with her allied health team. Mum’s options are…

As you all know, Mum loves entertaining. In July she, with the help of her sister, put on a morning tea for the staff of SACU. The food was supplied by Mocha Mecha (Shop 2/ 237 Riverside Blv Douglas QLD 4814, try the pink sandwich-shaped lamingtons – they’re possibly the main reason Mum hasn’t met her…

Apologies for not being the most dedicated blogger lately. Thankfully I have this afternoon off and will be updating the blog with all the news from the last few weeks. It’s most important to let you know that Mum is doing very well at the moment. Her TIAs seem to have stopped and SACU have switched her…

Sorry to be the bearer once again of bad news. Mum’s TIAs are continuing and, after having quite a bad one in physio on Wednesday, she’s now been referred to a neurologist. I hasten to say these “turns” are consistent with TIAs, however the number she’s having is concerning. This is why the doctors are…

One of the reasons Mum came out of the Independent Living Unit was because she was complaining of headaches and had some new stroke-like symptoms, such as slurred speech and numbness. The good news is that she has had a CT scan and there’s no sign of her having had a new major stroke. The bad…