Hi everyone

I am so sorry it has taken me this long to post back. I would like to thank you all so much for all your replies to my last post regarding Mum's depression. Thank you for all your useful advice too.

Anne, thanks for your offer to write to Mum. Yes please I would really appreciate it if you could write to Mum and I think it would really help Mum to hear from somebody who has been in the same boat. I am sending you my post address via your personal e mail. Thanks again.

UPDATE ON MUM: She continues to have up and down days but her mood is getting a bit better. She is still in hospital. It will be 3 weeks on 13th February that she has been in there. Hopefully she is coming home tomorrow, but I do worry because unfortunately she has picked up a new infection. This time in her wrist the area where they took skin for the graft. Mum worries it will go septic and they will amputate it! Will they really do that? Could that really happen? May be we are all worrying a bit too much.

Any way, thanks to you all once again.

I will keep you posted on Mum's progress.

Best Wishes

Kathleen.