The keeper of the BLT.

In the last post I said about my life has been shaken and changed.

Well apparently I am a sandwich carer. The first time I hear this I thought, I don't look after packed lunches!! 

After googling it, the mental images I had of looking after marmalade butties and making sure the lettuce did not escape from a BTL sub, soon disappeared. So what is a sandwich carer I don't here you cry.

Is someone who looks after an older relative and a younger relative. In my case it, my mum that tries to live as independently as she can.  And my daughter that has learning difficulties.

My Mum has MS and bone that don't like keeping calcium. meaning her mobility is not what it once was, much to her dismay. She no longer drive, opting to surrender her driving licence a few weeks ago. not that she was a big driver in the last few years, Dad used to do most of the driving as the feeling in my mums feet started to fade.

My daughter has ADHD and Global Development Delay, in other word, they are still working out what other problems she has.

 There is an odd side to caring for a mobility restricted  highly experienced  retired nursery teacher and caring teen with mental disabilities.  When they are together, they start caring for each other, weird but true.
My mum has the skills from years of teaching and running a nursery to verbally direct her granddaughter and can under her instruction her granddaughter can do the physical stuff she can't.

Lets take the weekly shop as an example. The shopping trolleys are right behind the car, and my daughter knows to get one and take it to the car door, then helps mum out and to the trolley. when in the supermarket, she get what mum cant. It beautiful to see, how these two people that have trouble functioning by themselves working together to over come there own problems without even thinking about it.

 And with that i will leave you with an escapee from Dave's bad joke Emporium, 

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Little old lady."
"Little old lady who?"
"I didn't know you could yodel!"

Till next time Dear Reader, Stay Safe.