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HELLO FORKERS 🌷🌷🌷May ‘21

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Beautiful Veg Garden @Busy-Lizzie
    Devon.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Good evening.

    Wonderful news @Yviestevie - I hope you have some sort of support, even just a listening ear. 

    @Hostafan1 - sorry to hear things aren’t great. Don’t want to interfere but we had a link nurse for dad-in-law set up from the psychogeratrician/memory clinic. Also, when the attendance allowance kicked in (6 weeks from application), that would cover the cost of a few hours of a carer support per week if the GP doesn’t facilitate community support (which it should now). Not sure if that would help your personal situation at all but surely trips to A&E should trigger some help. Feel for you. Night times can be very difficult and challenging. Keep strong and be proud that you are a wonderful husband. 

    I hope the ‘long’ weekend brings pleasantries, however small, to you all. 


    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @AuntyRach. Thanks for the advice. No attendance allowance as he's not reached pension age. ( Clearly Bojo's lot think nobody below pension age gets Dementia )
    I've applied for the much derided PIP.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2021
    @Hostafan1 have you been signposted to these folk? 

    https://www.crossroadstogether.org.uk/our-services/carerlinks/

    I know Covid has screwed a lot of stuff, but in more normal times they should be able to provide a regular Befriender to spend time with your OH so that you can have some time to yourself.  If there's a waiting list for when things get going again, it would be good to already be on it. 

    I would add that they were one of the charities that I knew I could rely on to do their level best to provide meaningful support to the people and families I used to work with. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Hosta - I had forgotten that, sorry. I’m vexed for you. I have lost my faith in GPs at the moment but maybe nag them daily? There may be a private geriatrician you can access for an initial visit to spark some referrals if your GP/hospital is a useless waste of space at all.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2021
    Good morning all 😊 ☕️ 
    A beautiful morning here ... the starlings next door are a bit non-plussed ... yesterday scaffolding went up on the front of their house to repair some storm damage ... it’s not near the corner of the roof where their nest is ... but I think they’re wondering whose territory it is, theirs or the sparrows who live a bit further along the guttering?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    good morning @Dovefromabove.
    I'm up for the day as I've been awake since 2.30am 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh bless you @Hostafan1 ... but it’s been light since 3:30 ... you could’ve been out there weeding 😉 🤗 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I was having a cup of decaff then. Finished that and went back to bed, but couldn't sleep. I've been up again since 5.30.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Have you discovered BBC Sounds?  On nights when I can’t sleep I listen to old stuff like Dorothy L Sayers etc on headphones in bed ...... stops my head going round and round in hyper-anxiety mode and sends me to sleep really quickly. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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