Good morning all 😃 ☕️ waking up in a comfy hotel bed ... slept very well after a complimentary large brandy 😎 Good to hear things are going well @Dordogne Damsel 😊 rediscovering yourself 👍 I remember that ... and the puzzlement that you’d allowed yourself to ‘disappear’. Onwards and upwards 🤗
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Pat E you're welcome to some of ours. When @Dovefromabove and lovely OH were here last week, our lake was about 5inches below the tops of the overflow pipes. On Wednesday I noticed the level was higher than I'd ever seen it. The overflow pipes were blocked by a "raft" of floating weed and there was about 4 or 5inches of water over the top. When I released it, the suction was so strong it sucked the rowing boat, with me in it, over the pipes and down on top of them, like hovering the bath plug over the hole when emptying it.
Morning all/afties Pat Have you got your waterwings on @Hostafan1? It's actually quite dry here today. Chilly, but looks not bad at the moment. @chicky- that's really dreadful the way your dad has been treated. What sane person thinks it's ok to send an elderly man home on his own? Would they still have done so if he had no family in the country, or if you were 200 miles away? Keep doing what you're doing @DordogneDamsel. If he tries any 'stalking', of any kind, keep a note of it, and report it. More power to your elbow - and every other bit of you
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl they had no interest whether he had family, here or in Australia, they just wanted him out. @Pat E think it is beds they are short of, not staff. Everything is just really stretched, so much so that it seems that some of the humanity is lost. Still - he had the op, it was free, and he lives to fight another day (and hopefully very many of them)
@chicky I agree that is appalling. From my (former) position in Social Care the very least that should have happened is that a proper Discharge Plan (consulting GP, family, hospital social worker at the very least) should’ve been agreed. What happened was extremely poor and potentially dangerous practice ... the very least you need to do is contact the hospital PALS team if you/he don’t want to go the whole hog of making an official NHS complaint. I know they’re stretched but that’s unacceptable.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove .....that’s interesting 🤔. We thought it was just the way things worked these days 😮. There was definitely no Discharge Plan in place (other than the one that we had cooked up between us, and that was meant to happen on Monday)
It's very magnanimous of you chicky. It's desperate that in many areas, there simply isn't enough capacity to go round. I'm very fortunate that my parents always had excellent care when in hospital, although neither of them needed any major ops apart from dad needing a hip done. He would have been 101 on Thursday, and there was an item on Radio 2 for World Music Day [been running all week] focussing on what a particular piece of music had meant to people. The lady on Thursday talked about her dad and it resonated with me. I was digging that r*ddy hole for my clematis, smiling and crying at the same time listening to her story. It was really uplifting, and she was so positive. Helps to keep your faith in the human race when it seems to be getting bombarded on a daily basis.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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waking up in a comfy hotel bed ... slept very well after a complimentary large brandy 😎
Good to hear things are going well @Dordogne Damsel 😊 rediscovering yourself 👍 I remember that ... and the puzzlement that you’d allowed yourself to ‘disappear’. Onwards and upwards 🤗
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Im holding off putting the news on - AFL final in Melbourne today, so you can just imagine what the evening viewing will be about. 🤬
When @Dovefromabove and lovely OH were here last week, our lake was about 5inches below the tops of the overflow pipes. On Wednesday I noticed the level was higher than I'd ever seen it. The overflow pipes were blocked by a "raft" of floating weed and there was about 4 or 5inches of water over the top. When I released it, the suction was so strong it sucked the rowing boat, with me in it, over the pipes and down on top of them, like hovering the bath plug over the hole when emptying it.
Have you got your waterwings on @Hostafan1? It's actually quite dry here today. Chilly, but looks not bad at the moment.
@chicky- that's really dreadful the way your dad has been treated. What sane person thinks it's ok to send an elderly man home on his own? Would they still have done so if he had no family in the country, or if you were 200 miles away?
Keep doing what you're doing @DordogneDamsel. If he tries any 'stalking', of any kind, keep a note of it, and report it. More power to your elbow - and every other bit of you
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Chicky, worrying about your father. Are they so busy in the hospital or short of staff that they would send him home like that? (Shakes head)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He would have been 101 on Thursday, and there was an item on Radio 2 for World Music Day [been running all week] focussing on what a particular piece of music had meant to people. The lady on Thursday talked about her dad and it resonated with me. I was digging that r*ddy hole for my clematis, smiling and crying at the same time listening to her story. It was really uplifting, and she was so positive. Helps to keep your faith in the human race when it seems to be getting bombarded on a daily basis.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...