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My point: if it is information to be used in their work, don't make them do it on their break.

If it isn't #valuable enough to the company to do it on work time, then it isn't valuable enough for the employee to know and use it either.

#WorkTime #PersonalTime

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The hits keep coming, and Annetta is tired...

The Story So Far:

* Mum died six weeks ago, my chest feels right and funny a lot of the time, I'm sleeping in every day, but I'm beginning to make jokes: "Then my mum died unexpectedly. Rude!!" This makes sense if you ever saw us together. We enjoyed gallows humour and the Golden Girls, it was a consistently good aspect of our relationship. Even with the laughing memories, grief at this stage is exhausting.

* Realities of executorship are sinking in - and while I don't resent the job, or want to wriggle out of it, there are times when it's deeply emotional and tough for me. This can be exhausting.

* The man who sexually assaulted me and several other female children is currently in Long Bay, but coming up for parole in November, and the lovely support person gave me a call yesterday as I have the right to a submission (which includes exclusion zones). This is also depleting the few resources I can call on at this time.

Even with decades of therapy, hard work and determination I am so tired of having to deal with painful stuff from the past.

Ultimately this is grief at the pointy end - grief is never in isolation. There's always other stuff demanding our time and attention while we sit and sift through our sorrows, memories and realisations.

If life calls and asks for me over the next few weeks please tell it I'm out and won't be back until next month. Ta.

#GDEP #grief #PersonalTime #exhaustion

Unexpectedly - most and completely unexpectedly - I am back at Launceston airport because my mum is dying fast. Total heart block (electrical system not working to stimulate heartbeat) and renal failure. She's non-responsive and poorly oxygenated, deteriorating quite rapidly.

This morning I was told she was being stabilised with a hope to put in a pacemaker, but it was very serious. A few hours later it became the resus limits and comfort care talk. She probably won't live through the night.

I'll be quiet for a while on socials, and may be odd in my responses for a bit. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

While I respect those of you with personal deities, please do not tell me you are "praying" for myself or my mother about this - because as an atheist I don't have the energy to wade through posts of that kind.

Hubs is keeping the home fires burning with Cully, and I think I'll be back before the end of next week. If you are in the Meander area and have biscuits please drop by. Both my gorgeous guys love biscuits and good company.

Huge love in heartache.

Annetta

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've been quiet and patchy on social media for a while now - partly because of ongoing long COVID - which I've been transparent about - but also because my mother's dementia is worsening. Which I haven't chosen to talk openly about until now.

Dementia is a horrible terminal disease, and although my mother's has been kind to us as she still recognises the people closest to her and that is somewhat comforting as her world gets smaller and smaller, it is still devestating.

I am my mother's responsible person for everything - do your advance planning everyone! - and although we are well-organised this is still incredibly difficult and exhausting. For anyone who has waited for me to return emails or phone calls this is the primary reason, and again I thank you for your patience with my erratic schedule.

I will be travelling back to the mainland this weekend, returning next week, to help settle my mum into full-time care. The admin alone is astonishing, as those of you who have undertaken this process understand, but the details of moving a life from a home into a care facility is wrenching and fraught.

Have a good weekend and I'll see you soon,

Annetta

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