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Having loads of issues with my mum currently. Last years been hard. Thought I was getting somewhere but my sister called at 8am and my mums had yet another fall and possibly broken her hip.
She's a mess yet she's early 60s...
Feel bad that my 1st reaction was FfS not again.
Still if it starts off as a bag of **** it can only improve yeah?
You have my sympathy. My Mam is very frail, painfully thing and with dementia and has had a few falls and got stuck in the bath (luckily we were staying over and heard her and rescued her). She's 80 though.
We live a distance away, luckily my brother and other family are just around the corner, but it means they have the daily and doctor hassles, probably like you're having. I feel quite guilty, but make the 6 hour drive every month or so for a weekend to give them a break and obviously see my Mam.
See what support you and her can get so you can get a break. At the moment my mam is refusing any 'outside assistance', but she has a personal alarm and we're trying to get her reassessed for bath lifts etc.
She has a UTI just before Xmas which royally messed up Xmas for us all as she was so unwell with it, but not hospital bad. Brother is at the GPs next week again for blood tests etc.
We had those issues last Xmas my sympathies. My NY literally is shit . COVID on Xmas followed by the squirts last Tuesday , thought I was over it but I've started again this morning 😔😔😔😔😔😔
Just reading up it's yet another symptom apparently, seems like there's a list as long as your arm connected to it .
Sympathies - we've had issues like this for years with MIL, then three years in a Nursing Home and, of course the restricted visits. She finally passed about 6 months ago. It's hard - we were at a friends house last night and she'd spent all day in hosptial with her neighbour who she 'cares' for as he's no immediate family. She was in tears when we got there as she made him stay in - his oxgen levels were very bad and were told he'd die if he went home - she's spent the last few weeks constantly checking on him, and in the night too. We don't think he's got that long - advanced heart failure. Lovely bloke, and we've even stayed over at his house. He was picking his Chinese Take Away yesterday at hospital, but really was too ill to come home (hospital would have let him go putting pressure on our friend to care for him in his last hours.) PS he's still here with a good dose of oxygen today.
Getting old sucks.
Sounds like you may need social services and some form of care package.
Sorry to hear it Duncan. It's a bloody long way to drive if you're doing it regularly too.
Ambulance just turned up called at 8am.
Wtf has happened to nhs.
Need to speak to A&E when she gets there and flag a loaf of issues.
****ing nightmare
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duncancallum - you have my sympathy.
I broke my hip aged 55, luckily there was an ambulance for me within 2 hours (even though 2 sets of idiots had wasted the paramedics time and they could have taken me to hospital sooner). Lucky to have had the leg pinned a few hours later. If your mum doesn't get sorted out sooner then things are going to take a long time to heal. She'll need a lot of care.
Once a woman has gone through the menopause then bones become brittle.
Hoping that she is fit and healthy for her age.
Good luck
A hard start to the year. Thoughts with you and your mum.
Cheers. A lot of it is her poor lifestyle choices and diet of fags n Booze....
It's an ongoing issue.
Anyway nowt I can do for now
Sorry to read this, shit start to the year. I hope it does improve and quickly.
Good luck getting things sorted out duncancallum, similar start to the year for me too.
Dad is going downhill rapidly, really struggling to follow a conversation and getting incredibly clumsy. Mum is suffering with a skin condition that leaves her in a lot of pain all day. I went to see them today and on the way there popped into a supermarket to get a few bits only for someone to run me over while reversing out of a parking space! Pushed myself off the car as it came back only for the passenger to jump out and then threaten to deck me for yelling at the driver.
Like you say, can only go uphill from here.
Sorry to here that.
Cctv n worth filing with the police?
Well she's broken her hip on the good leg. ****ed if I know what to do.
Sorry dude. Likely there's bog all you can do.
There's a longer reply in this but, eh, it's 1am and I'm exhausted. Just... for what it's worth, I feel your pain. Hang on there.
Nothing you can really do with a broken hip, just let it heal while following the medic's advice.
Cctv n worth filing with the police?
The security guard took my details and phoned 101 but nothing to do really, CCTV doesn't cover the car park in any detail. Just forgetting about it and trying to remember that not everyone is a dick!
Your mum will need a lot of care. She'll be on crutches and not mobile for a while. If she has any surgery, eg the hip gets pinned, then it takes a while to recover. Atm I'm guessing she's still in hospital until she can perform the 'stair test'. I hope she helps herself and takes the correct medication, also she'll need to have physiotherapy
Good luck.