Apparently mum has only just been taken back to the retirement village now (6:30 pm), but she is being walked around, seems none the worse for her experience, and has been doing physiotherapy.

After Greg was told that mum was to be discharged today, Rachel was at the hospital and was told that there was no question of that happening. Brilliant! And the reason given for not discharging mum was that there was a purported duty of care - and yet no-one there took care to see that mum ate her meals. It was the same with dad. If he didn't open the containers and eat what was put down in front of him it was interpreted as him 'not wanting' his meal.

Keep your parents out of hospital any way you can, I say.