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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Netflix here,£9.99 we share with daughter,she has Amazon prime,we share hers. Told Sky yesterday we are cancelling,told the bloke we need the money to pay for our fuel. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Cancelled our Sky,  they kept phoning offering a greatly reduce rate,  don’t fall for it they’ll put it up again after you’ve agreed. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I had an alarm go off in the Pharmacy once, during the day, could see no reason, putting the code in didn't stop it, and compared to a domestic alarm it was brain freezing. I dumped a bag of zinc starch talc dusting powder on it.  It shut up. When the alarm company finally turned up they had to replace it.
    I have just got back from visiting hubby in hospital. He has been in three months. The physios have signed him off as he can climb a flight of stairs, three times this week. the surgeon has signed him off. his "levels" are all OK, obs OK, and operation scar healed up I have had a higher toilet installed, grab rails by front door and extra bannister on stairs. The discharge team are wittering on about his "care package". I'm his care package FFS. If theres something I need help with I have neighbours and friends who have offered help. Now he's bed blocking even though he wants to come home, house is sorted, he is not alone, and the physios and medics say he can go. I should have had a phone call Friday that never materialised, still waiting(they don't work at weekends).

    No wonder people are still queuing for urgent operations.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hope you get your OH home soon @fidgetbones and that all goes smoothly ... 3 months is a long time to be poorly. ((hugs))

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





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    The best medicine for him now is his own bed, without bleepers and alarms going off all night, and nurses waking him at 6 am to do his obs.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I agree @fidgetbones .... but do accept help if you need it ... as I used to say to the families I was assessing, if you overdo it and wear yourself out you're not going to be able to look after him, and we'll end up funding care for both of you, so please don't think your saving the system money by doing it all yourself.  ((hugs))

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





  • One of the two overnight hospital stays I had they  couldn't do any more to get me out. Tonsillectomy at 3 or4, delayed me starting school, the top nurse came through asking the nurses why I was still there! They told her I had red raw throat that kept bleeding and I refused to eat. I had to be eating before I was allowed to leave. Matron told them to get a bowl of dry cornflakes, she'd get me eating! She shoved a spoon of dry cornflakes down my throat quite forcibly then told the nurses to get the discharge papers and call my parents to get me out of there.  I went home and didn't eat for a week!

    I think things might have changed for the better but then got worse in the opposite way. I hope you're OH gets home and fully recovers from whatever he had done. Good luck with the discharge from hospital. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My brother had to eat dry cornflakes when he had his tonsils out. many years ago.   He was most put out when my son was given icecream when his turn came 😂

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





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My cousin had a hip replacement last month, and was out in three days , going home to an empty house.  I was gobsmacked.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They like to get people moving asap, and also to get them away from any risk of hospital acquired infections after an op.  I imagine there was a pretty good care package arranged ... a friend was home three days after her hip replacement ... as her husband had  a serious heart condition he was not allowed to be her carer so she had visits from the Practice Nurse and physio, along with some Home Care each day for a couple of weeks ... then it was gradually reduced as she was more able to fend for herself and manage the stairs etc. 

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





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