Ooh, I love a flea market @Busy-Lizzie. Once in my youth I went to one on the outskirts of Paris and picked up a pair of winkle-picker kitten heel (more like nails!) black slingbacks which I absolutely loved! I was the bees knees in those. Glad you had a nice garden visit - cake is always a bonus of course.
£100 seems about par for the course when eating out these days @Lizzie27. We dread it when daughter and family invite us for a meal out as we generally end up paying! (OH slinks off and pays the bill before anyone notices but last time I said upfront that we would split it down the middle).
@D0rdogne_Damsel - so sorry to hear about your friend - just awful. Hope they make a good recovery.
@Hostafan1 - yay for a good night's sleep. Better than sex!
@punkdoc - you really have had rotten luck with your NDN.
I'm feeling very achy today. Went down the street with my stencils and paint spray cans to do the pitch markings for the street market - back breaking and horrid work and they will all have to be done again before the Christmas market as my plan and the actual spaces have gone awry over the years. It took 4 hours!
Admin this morning but am going to do a bit in the garden now...
@Hostafan1 - that's outrageous! 14 days without a visit??? One could understand if it was long term care and they needed to get the patient habituated to their new surroundings before allowing visitors but it's totally out of order in your case - and heartless for both of you.
I think part of the problem is that, in these days of bed blocking, the hospital staff have to show the powers that be that they are making plans to move patients on … they can’t just do nothing.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, you are expected to administer drugs, I was told just keep squirting the morphine in her mouth. You’re not to open the locked critical care box as that’s injections, but anything else it DIY At one time I was presented with a half used box of stoma bags and a phone number where I could get more. another time, bag of urine bags and the stand and what to do if she wasn’t passing anything. There was never a care package in place for either of them and as @Hostafan1 said, the money takes 4 weeks to process, I got mine after dad died, I phoned and said they were too late, I was told it was mine to keep, and I did keep it! I didn’t even bother or rather wasn’t advised that I could even get it for mum.
Whatever happened to The Cradle to the Grave Care we were promised. They obviously did bank on population explosions. I get so mad when I hear this what Hostas going through.
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That's just awful @Hostafan1 and totally inhumane. Is the hospital legally entitled to move G without your consent? What a shambles, just what you don't need right now. I do hope that additional care at home can be arranged at short notice if you have consented to have him back but I'm not holding my breath.
We are having a quiet day at home today, it was a good 'do' yesterday and fortunately the weather remained fine so it was mostly outside. The house was much admired ,particularly the oak staircase another nephew had designed and hand made - it was absolutely beautiful, the kind you want to keep on stroking.
My daughter left at lunchtime with her car being loaded up with about a dozen pots and plants plus pebbles and decorative bits I no longer want. She should be home soon if the M5 is okay.
Hopefully the horrible ex NDN will not give you any more trouble @Punkdoc and you can relax a bit. Has Moira got a friend who could come and stay with her if you have to go into hospital?
Your mother sounds a very interesting character @Busy-Lizzie and you can rightfully feel proud of her. I often wish I could phone my mum as well for a long chat. I was complimented on my outfit yesterday and immediately thought that was due to my mum's influence, she was very stylish. Even when she was in the care home, the carers would ask her which outfit and what colour she would like to wear that day. I think they appreciated a resident who was compos mentis and could discuss style and fashion with them.
That's as much as I can do in the garden for today. Cleared out a load of foxgloves and a massive dock from the bit by the compost bin - now you can see the lovely grass and hellebore corsica I put there earlier in the year. Massive nettles too. I knew they were there and was hoping the butterflies would avail themselves but not sure they did. Now stung - but the dock came in handy before I binned it. @Pat E - we seem to be pretty much ignoring Covid here. There are 16 cases in our little town alone, 120 testing positive in East Suffolk daily on average.
Busy Lizzie and Lizzie 27, your posts really struck a chord. My mum died 9 years ago, and I still get moments when I see or hear something, and think, I must ring mum and tell her about that. Lots I wish I’d asked her when I’d had the chance. During lockdown I meant to utilise spare time writing some memoirs for the children and grandchildren. Somehow didn’t manage to notice any spare time, despite not identifying much actually achieved in the last year and a half!
My friend was on a morphine driver pump when he was dying at home, and was visited twice a day by nurses from his GP practice. It was the same for my mother at the care home for the last few weeks of her life.
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You need to point out to them that the quicker they can organise a care plan for him, the quicker they can get his hospital bed freed up. Obviously some years ago since my mum was in this position, and a different health district, but they did get their skates on once we had agreed for her to come home. Are you able to get any response from your gp surgery re nursing care? Is there any Hospiscare / Marie Curie / Macmillan provision locally? I’ve heard from friends that they have mostly been very helpful.
I’m afraid the council care package that was organised looked very generous, four visits per day from carers to help with turning, washing, bed changing etc, and even four hours a week ‘ babysitting’ to allow family to go out for a break. However, in reality, the ‘carers’ hadn’t been sufficiently trained, in some cases, not at all. Also the timing of the visits was erratic to say the least. I remember seeing one set of ‘carers’ off the premises, only to get a knock at the door half an hour later from the next shift arriving! Luckily, we had enough relatives locally to manage without outside help, and it was a great relief to tell the council to get stuffed, and why. Sorry to be so negative.
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£100 seems about par for the course when eating out these days @Lizzie27. We dread it when daughter and family invite us for a meal out as we generally end up paying! (OH slinks off and pays the bill before anyone notices but last time I said upfront that we would split it down the middle).
@D0rdogne_Damsel - so sorry to hear about your friend - just awful. Hope they make a good recovery.
@Hostafan1 - yay for a good night's sleep. Better than sex!
@punkdoc - you really have had rotten luck with your NDN.
I'm feeling very achy today. Went down the street with my stencils and paint spray cans to do the pitch markings for the street market - back breaking and horrid work and they will all have to be done again before the Christmas market as my plan and the actual spaces have gone awry over the years. It took 4 hours!
Admin this morning but am going to do a bit in the garden now...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You’re not to open the locked critical care box as that’s injections, but anything else it DIY
At one time I was presented with a half used box of stoma bags and a phone number where I could get more.
another time, bag of urine bags and the stand and what to do if she wasn’t passing anything.
There was never a care package in place for either of them and as @Hostafan1 said, the money takes 4 weeks to process, I got mine after dad died, I phoned and said they were too late, I was told it was mine to keep, and I did keep it!
I didn’t even bother or rather wasn’t advised that I could even get it for mum.
Whatever happened to The Cradle to the Grave Care we were promised.
They obviously did bank on population explosions.
I get so mad when I hear this what Hostas going through.
That's just awful @Hostafan1 and totally inhumane. Is the hospital legally entitled to move G without your consent? What a shambles, just what you don't need right now.
I do hope that additional care at home can be arranged at short notice if you have consented to have him back but I'm not holding my breath.
We are having a quiet day at home today, it was a good 'do' yesterday and fortunately the weather remained fine so it was mostly outside. The house was much admired ,particularly the oak staircase another nephew had designed and hand made - it was absolutely beautiful, the kind you want to keep on stroking.
My daughter left at lunchtime with her car being loaded up with about a dozen pots and plants plus pebbles and decorative bits I no longer want. She should be home soon if the M5 is okay.
Hopefully the horrible ex NDN will not give you any more trouble @Punkdoc and you can relax a bit. Has Moira got a friend who could come and stay with her if you have to go into hospital?
Your mother sounds a very interesting character @Busy-Lizzie and you can rightfully feel proud of her. I often wish I could phone my mum as well for a long chat. I was complimented on my outfit yesterday and immediately thought that was due to my mum's influence, she was very stylish. Even when she was in the care home, the carers would ask her which outfit and what colour she would like to wear that day. I think they appreciated a resident who was compos mentis and could discuss style and fashion with them.
@Pat E - we seem to be pretty much ignoring Covid here. There are 16 cases in our little town alone, 120 testing positive in East Suffolk daily on average.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Are you able to get any response from your gp surgery re nursing care? Is there any Hospiscare / Marie Curie / Macmillan provision locally? I’ve heard from friends that they have mostly been very helpful.
I’m afraid the council care package that was organised looked very generous, four visits per day from carers to help with turning, washing, bed changing etc, and even four hours a week ‘ babysitting’ to allow family to go out for a break. However, in reality, the ‘carers’ hadn’t been sufficiently trained, in some cases, not at all. Also the timing of the visits was erratic to say the least. I remember seeing one set of ‘carers’ off the premises, only to get a knock at the door half an hour later from the next shift arriving! Luckily, we had enough relatives locally to manage without outside help, and it was a great relief to tell the council to get stuffed, and why. Sorry to be so negative.