I have the kind of mother in-law that if all mother in-laws were like her no one would be able to understand mother in-law jokes, she'll be 92 soon.
Over the last couple of months, it's been so rapid the degeneration, I find it so sad it really hurts, I know something will finnish us all off in the end but this seems to be so cruel, not so much for her.
It's no longer the bright witty person that could demolish me anytime, usually with few words, when I, usually with a little bit of feigned cruelty thrown in, tried to pull her leg.
She can't look after herself anymore, keeps tripping over, isn't safe with anything electrical, doesn't drink or eat unless prompted, can't have a sensible conversation with her anymore, so we're arranging for here to go into care, she is in hospital care at the moment after her second fall in the last couple of weeks, no broken bones thank goodness, she can't even remember that she needs her walking frame to go anywhere.
We see her every day yesterday was better than today good days and the bad, it's not a chore she has always been one of life's sweetest people.
It's something I've never had to deal with before it seems such a cruel way to go for any one to go, whether they're good bad or indifferent people.
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