Inevitable stages

The Boof!er has been diagnosed with early stage kidney disease, on top of diabetes which hasn't quite come under control, and some kind of flaring 'IBS'. He's lost a little weight, and seems a little subdued, but reasonably OK in himself - it was a change in eating habits and insulin needs which alerted us: suddenly, he was much hungrier yet needing considerably less insulin.

We want to adopt a new feline friend for Wong!le before he suddenly can't find his Uncle Boof! (who is heading towards 17 in May) any more.

Meanwhile, Social Services have finally got their act together to meet with me tomorrow morning about Mater's direct payments for non-residential care. The new rehab training for her carers is starting to work - they were able to persuade her to go shopping at the second attempt this weekend, and got her helping to make her own lunch today.

Had a lovely weekend at D's father's 82 birthday celebration - after going through a slightly down patch, he's looking like he's a sprightly 70-something again :-)