"Is it your intention to starve me to death?"  12.30 at Night convinced that someone should have come to make breakfast.
 

"I slept really well."  7.30pm having gone to bed an hour earlier on a light Summers evening - believing it to be the next day.
 

"I don't know where I am and I've been sick."  2.30pm with a UTI.
 

"I'm on the floor!"
 

"What is the carer going to have for lunch?"
 

"I know the clock says its Wednesday and night -  but we know its Thursday morning, don't we?"  9.30pm    Wednesday night.
 

"Your Mother slipped as she was sitting down..."  An elderly neighbour in a quavering voice informing me of a broken leg.
 

"This is the crash team at Salisbury District Hospital...your Mother has had an episode..."
 

"A strange woman came to the door and I let her in.  She seemed to know who I was."  A visit from a neighbour.
 

"I am downstairs.  The carer didn't come so I've come downstairs.  I've made my breakfast.  Why is it so dark?"  01.20am
 

"I keep pressing the button but it just goes up." Fidgeting with the recliner chair control that will never do what she wants it to.
 

"Are you alright?"  My Mother to me - sometime after 3am.
 

"I need you.  I feel sick and I don't know where I am. Where are you?"
 

"Aren't you coming today?"   As I walk to my Mothers carrying shopping.
 

"...do you want us to call an Ambulance?"  My Mothers alarm service after the alert is activated.  Anytime you like really.  9.30 in the morning.  3.50 in the afternoon.  2.15 in the morning.
 

Or "We think she has had a fall and we have called an Ambulance...."
 

"I'm on the floor..."  I am meeting a friend in an hour.  Can I get to Mums, pick her up off the floor, check that she is okay and still make it?  Or am I going to Hospital?  Should I really be thinking this?
 

"Did you say that no one would come tonight?"  Late afternoon.  Mum lives in the continual belief that the Carers will never come.  But they always do.
 

"Look at her foot..."  One member of the ambulance crew to her colleague discussing whether my Mothers hip is broken.
 

"I thought you would want to know that the carer brought the paper in...".  When you have climbed out of the bath to answer the phone because you think there must be a crisis.
 

"I've been to the top of the stairs and looked down and the paper hasn't come yet."  11.30 at Night.
 

"The lunchtime carer thought your Mother may have had a stroke..."  The Care Agency.  She didn't, but there goes the lunch you just cooked.
 

"How old are you actually?"  The day after your 60th birthday.
 

I ring.  There is no answer.  I ring again.  There is no answer.  I am on my way...