Worrying

    Margaret (my 91-year-old dad's also 91-year-old girlfriend, with whom he lives, in case you aren't keeping up) is at the doctor. She apparently has a red patch on her forehead that was painful enough to keep her awake all night. Hopefully it is something very minor that will resolve easily, but it brings across a rather obvious point: when you're largely an invalid, it isn't a real good idea to rely on a caregiver who is also largely an invalid. Because if anything happens to the latter, and you don't have any backup plan (and they don't) you are very suddenly up a creek without a paddle. Hopefully, nothing of the sort happens today. And maybe through a long string of miracles it never happens. But it's definitely something they need to think about.