Where My Mother's Up To
Aug. 12th, 2015 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThere was talk four months ago of discharging her from the regular appointments at Maidstone Hospital but it hasn't happened yet. For the time being the Anti-veg people want to see her every two months. They test her eyesight using one of those old-fashioned letter boards, then they take a picture of the back of her eye, then a doctor sees us and gives us the goodish news that things haven't got any worse.
Her sight is dim, but the real problem is in the brain. She can see a thing but she can't remember the thing she saw a moment ago- so everything she sees is without context. She can't read a newspaper, let alone a book, because the phrases stand in isolation and TV- which she watches much of the day- is just an incoherent stream of speech and images.
Her sight is dim, but the real problem is in the brain. She can see a thing but she can't remember the thing she saw a moment ago- so everything she sees is without context. She can't read a newspaper, let alone a book, because the phrases stand in isolation and TV- which she watches much of the day- is just an incoherent stream of speech and images.
