Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
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Mar 2018
9:20pm, 16 Mar 2018
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Badger
Good. Really nice to read something positive on here.
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Mar 2018
10:26pm, 16 Mar 2018
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TeeBee
Looks like dad has found a care provider to help him. All the advice I got from fetchies was really helpful. Funnily enough, I found a place via the CQC site (recommended by B) which looked promising. This turned out to be the same org recommended to dad by a neighbour. It then turned out that dad had actually already met the owner who occasionally attends the dementia carers group that he attends. We've taken that as a good sign, and dad had a home visit from them today. Hopefully they will have a carer who can start coming in the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed. |
Mar 2018
2:52am, 17 Mar 2018
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Carpathius
That is good news, both for Linds and TeeBee.
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Mar 2018
6:27am, 17 Mar 2018
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Little Miss Happy
That's great Linds. Hope it all works out TeeBee - sounds as though it was meant to be. |
Mar 2018
7:04am, 17 Mar 2018
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LindsD
That's good TeeBee 
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Mar 2018
7:39am, 17 Mar 2018
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LazyDaisy
Good news for Linds and TeeBee! It's a big relief isn't it to start to get things sorted.
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Mar 2018
5:14pm, 21 Mar 2018
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ThorntonRunner
Role reversal: My 89 and 93 yo parents have just headed off home after a two bus trip to visit me in hospital where I'm waiting for surgery on a broken ankle!
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Mar 2018
5:26pm, 21 Mar 2018
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Little Miss Happy
Sorry to hear about your ankle ThorntonRunner - glad your parents are well enough to be supportive.
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Mar 2018
2:59pm, 29 Mar 2018
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LazyDaisy
As there haven't been any posts on here for a few days I hope that means everyone's aged P's are on a reasonably even keel. I wish I could say the same about my mum. She has been getting increasingly muddled and complaining of excessive fatigue. I asked for her to be seen by the home's doctor. As seems reasonable, he thinks a wee infection might be behind it all and asked the home to get a urine sample. She is refusing to co-operate and keeps removing the potty thing they put into her loo to collect her urine. I've explained, the carers have explained, she nods and agrees, and then removes the wretched thing. My sister is collecting her after lunch tomorrow, to take her to Nottingham for the Easter weekend. I've put it on her calendar, shown her that entry, reminded her several times on each visit I've made for the last week. At 5:45 am yesterday morning mum phoned my sister asking her when she was going to arrive! And then, to add to her confusion and distress, there was a very unfortunate incident yesterday evening. Mum's room wardrobe has two sliding, mirrored doors. Yesterday I reported to the carers that one of the doors had got jammed on its rollers, and they said they would go up and sort it. They obviously forgot. In the evening, somehow (mum has no idea) the mirror on the jammed door got broken. I suspect mum tried to pull it shut and broke it, or maybe she fell into it. She told the staff she though she'd been burgled, and was very distressed. She spent the night in a downstairs room nearer the night staff (which she liked ;-)) I called in to see her this morning and found her stripping off her clothes as she'd wet herself :-(. She has a plentiful supply of pads and incontinence knickers but isn't using them. I got her changed and insisted she wear a pad, and explained *again* about the need for a urine sample. It's all so sad, undignified, frustrating and well, just awful. And there's nothing I can do to make her happier or younger or stronger, which is all she wants. |
Mar 2018
3:13pm, 29 Mar 2018
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.B.
How difficult LD, sending hugs. Sounds like it might be an infection. Can't they give her antibs even without the test as it's proving so tricky?
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