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My Mum has a head like a football

Well... That's not entirely true, but she did when she woke up on Monday morning! I'll explain:

Over the weekend, she was complaining that her legs hurt, not her hip, which she has seen the doctor about. The bottom of her legs. I said "You should tell the Doctor about that, he could probably sort it". She gave me the sort of look which is usually reserved for child murderers! By Sunday evening, she was announcing that she'd had enough and wished it would all end.

On Monday morning, she woke up looking like the Elephant man. 'Strange' I thought to myself, what the hell's caused that? Well it turns out that all the complaining about her legs etc over the weekend translates as "I have toothache!"

We called the doctor out and she swiftly announced that she's not 'authorised' to treat dental problems and that Mum should see a dentist, at which point I exited stage left rather rapidly because Mum has the WORST dental phobia I have ever seen. She hasn't seen a dentist since 1982! I've been nagging her for years that she needed to see a dentist, her teeth are shocking! I've been telling her for years to go and see a dentist who is good with phobias, or to see the doctor about something to calm her down so she can go. She wouldn't and she told basically told me to mind my own business. I warned her something like this would happen, which of course is why she claimed that it was her legs hurting over the weekend.

Anyway! She has an appointment with the dentist at the hospital today and the doctor has given her some Diazepam to take beforehand. This should be interesting. The dentist told me on the phone that she might need to go to Raigmore to be treated as she is an anaesthetic risk, so she is currently sitting in bed pouting and complaining that Raigmore is too hot and the food's no good.

If I'm perfectly honest, it would be nice for me if she had a little stay in Raigmore as I don't get any respite. Unfortunately, my luck doesn't run that way, so she'll probably get sent down there for one or two days which means I'll spend all my time driving down and back and I wouldn't be surprised if a major component falls off my car just for good measure!