Injuries

Mysterious injuries are hard to deal with when your parent does not know how they happen.
If you visit them every day you at least know when it happens, I can understand how things could be worse if you do not.
I see my mother every day.
I visited mom last week in the morning and found she had burned her hand.
It wasn't burned the afternoon before.
Because I know her routine I knew she had burned it reaching into the toaster oven. She of course had no idea it was a burn or how it happened.
Keeping her from poking at it with dirty fingers is practically impossible, just like it was when she had dry eyes and they got infected because she wouldnt keep her fingers out.
I feel bad for her, the injury is still a mystery to her a week later. Every day it is a new discovery, a new strange thing on her hand she doesn't know what it is or where it came from..