davidgillon | Bats Fly North

My sister sent up the Bat Signal last week, having run out of spoons for coping with my mother, whose medication side-effects at that point had reached essentially constant hallucinations (giving a drug known to cause vivid dreaming to someone desperately in need of sleep strikes me as a blatantly bad idea). So I'm headed up there to help/possibly cover for her so she can get a few days away from home before school starts again. And of course by the time I was able to get away the doctor had changed his mind and decided to stop everything, so Mam's actually almost back to normal, just worn out from two months of one side-effect after another.

I hope to keep this trip to a fortnight or three weeks at most, but I haven't booked a return ticket in case of further issues and even that will mean I've spent three full months in Durham since the New Year. I do usually go up about this time, but I'd almost rather skip it this time.

On the plus side, everything probate-wise is now in the hands of the Court of Probate, probably for eight weeks, so I don't actually have to work when I'm up there this time, which consumed my last trip. I also finally got all my PPI mis-selling claims done on Monday, including long-distance holding of my sister's hand while she did hers. With both of those finally out of the way, I'm hoping I can get some writing done while I'm away.