We took the same elderly relative to casualty a couple of years ago because we thought she had fractured her hip and been walking about on it for 3 months! After a long wait, she was x rayed and we were assured she had no fracture. We knew she did (she'd had two before this) but did not know that x-ray machines miss some fractures. Eventually, after more weeks of agony, she was scanned - and, guess what? She had a fracture! She has rheumatoid arthritis and ws treated for years by a 'specialist' who turned out to be a fake and who had to return to India in a hurry! She has had synptoms missed and misdiagnosed and has been given the wrong treatment for weeks on end. r as no more than anThis week a doctor saw her as no more than an elderly person taking up a bed to no purpose. She has now suffered for 24 years yet few seems to see her as someone who actually needs consideration and care. She has a naive trust in doctors and does not take responsibility for her own care, preferring to accept whatever is dealt out.
I know that there are many, many caring doctors and nurses out there. My OH is one. They are also victims of a system that places targets ahead of patients.
I know that there are many, many caring doctors and nurses out there. My OH is one. They are also victims of a system that places targets ahead of patients.
Well said GG. I'm lucky that I've had largely good experience with doctors and hospitals-rarely been in one for myself other than giving birth but you hear some awful stories, again often relating to older people. It's disgraceful when old people are treated worse than animals in this country. My late aunt ( married a Canadian pilot during the war and moved to Canada) told me how different it is there as old people are seen as a fund of knowledge -almost a resource- to be treated with respect and consulted for their life experience. Again, may have been her location but she loved it there.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Cyclists what cyclists, Driving a Comet between tank roads a voice from the turret asked did you not see that cycling club?? What cycling club I asked. "Oh well" too late then. We have a myriad of lanes around us all long runs so the cyclists are out in force practicing, they can do quite a good run around the lanes and back here as they link in. Having cycled myself I wait back until the road is clear then pass them as I would a horse wide and careful The Londoners should invest in armoured vehicles that would make the cyclists shear off and hitting them with a stick could get them shot.
We are caravanners and often have to tow on country roads where it is difficult or impossible for people to pass us. Some people get pretty irate with us. Once, in Dorset, we emerged from a winding road onto the Blandford by-pass. A car which had been following us for a while overtook us. The front seat passenger, a young woman, leaned out of the window as far as her waist and, with great emphasis, lifted her arm and showed us two raised fingers. We waved brightly.
Then there are the elderly drivers like my father in law, who always drove his car down the middle of the road at 25 miles an hour. His sight deteriorated to the point where he always took his daughter with him to tell him when cars approached him in the opposite direction.
An elderly friend was still driving at age 92. He was stopped by the police one Sunday morning because he was driving too slowly. He replied, 'Don't bother me now, officer. I'm in a hurry to get to church!'
Then there are the elderly drivers like my father in law, who always drove his car down the middle of the road at 25 miles an hour. His sight deteriorated to the point where he always took his daughter with him to tell him when cars approached him in the opposite direction.
An elderly friend was still driving at age 92. He was stopped by the police one Sunday morning because he was driving too slowly. He replied, 'Don't bother me now, officer. I'm in a hurry to get to church!'
is this a joke? cas there would be no way that id let anyone who coundnt see drive a car.
Not even a ride on lawn mower,and as for the 92 year old well!
Marty some day we all grow old and in this day and age the elderly often need some transport. I say better the older driver who has driven for years is insured and taxed and on average drives fewer miles than most. It is the boy racers, 30 lessons and a pass at thirty miles an hour who then buy clapped out old bangers no insurance they cannot afford it so usually no tax either doing wheelies and handbrake turns on the supermarket car park, or worse still doting mothers letting their teenagers loose in their own cars. Thank goodness I am not the Policeman having to knock on a door and tell the parents the bad news. Any Grandparent who has driven the school run and still shaking hours later after seeing the atrocious standards of driving would prefer the days when kids walked to school I am sure.
Its true that the young get into accidents more often than the elderly. The stories above are much less likely to happen nowadays, because there is more supervsion of older drivers. My father in law only stopped driving around his village when my husband threatened to report him to the police if he ever went on the road again!
I could tell more stories like this. I know a man in his sixties who never drives outside the Welsh valley town he lives in. My husband had to meet him and lead him to our town because it is on the other side of the M4 and he had never crossed the motorway. He did drive to London once and was stopped on the M25, again for driving too slowly. He wasn't wearing a seat belt. When told off for this, he replied, 'Round our way we never bother.'
Hi Frank i do understand what your saying its just if you cant see you cant drive surely.
The boy racers ,well thats up to them but police seem to be a lot more on them, but id woundnt want to knock the door of a parent to tell them that my grandad as hit there
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We took the same elderly relative to casualty a couple of years ago because we thought she had fractured her hip and been walking about on it for 3 months! After a long wait, she was x rayed and we were assured she had no fracture. We knew she did (she'd had two before this) but did not know that x-ray machines miss some fractures. Eventually, after more weeks of agony, she was scanned - and, guess what? She had a fracture! She has rheumatoid arthritis and ws treated for years by a 'specialist' who turned out to be a fake and who had to return to India in a hurry! She has had synptoms missed and misdiagnosed and has been given the wrong treatment for weeks on end. r as no more than anThis week a doctor saw her as no more than an elderly person taking up a bed to no purpose. She has now suffered for 24 years yet few seems to see her as someone who actually needs consideration and care. She has a naive trust in doctors and does not take responsibility for her own care, preferring to accept whatever is dealt out.
I know that there are many, many caring doctors and nurses out there. My OH is one. They are also victims of a system that places targets ahead of patients.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Cyclists what cyclists, Driving a Comet between tank roads a voice from the turret asked did you not see that cycling club?? What cycling club I asked. "Oh well" too late then.
We have a myriad of lanes around us all long runs so the cyclists are out in force practicing, they can do quite a good run around the lanes and back here as they link in.
Having cycled myself I wait back until the road is clear then pass them as I would a horse wide and careful
The Londoners should invest in armoured vehicles that would make the cyclists shear off and hitting them with a stick could get them shot.
Frank.
We are caravanners and often have to tow on country roads where it is difficult or impossible for people to pass us. Some people get pretty irate with us. Once, in Dorset, we emerged from a winding road onto the Blandford by-pass. A car which had been following us for a while overtook us. The front seat passenger, a young woman, leaned out of the window as far as her waist and, with great emphasis, lifted her arm and showed us two raised fingers. We waved brightly.
I felt a certain sympathy with her, though.
Then there are the elderly drivers like my father in law, who always drove his car down the middle of the road at 25 miles an hour. His sight deteriorated to the point where he always took his daughter with him to tell him when cars approached him in the opposite direction.
An elderly friend was still driving at age 92. He was stopped by the police one Sunday morning because he was driving too slowly. He replied, 'Don't bother me now, officer. I'm in a hurry to get to church!'
is this a joke? cas there would be no way that id let anyone who coundnt see drive a car.
Not even a ride on lawn mower,and as for the 92 year old well!
Marty some day we all grow old and in this day and age the elderly often need some transport. I say better the older driver who has driven for years is insured and taxed and on average drives fewer miles than most.
It is the boy racers, 30 lessons and a pass at thirty miles an hour who then buy clapped out old bangers no insurance they cannot afford it so usually no tax either doing wheelies and handbrake turns on the supermarket car park, or worse still doting mothers letting their teenagers loose in their own cars.
Thank goodness I am not the Policeman having to knock on a door and tell the parents the bad news. Any Grandparent who has driven the school run and still shaking hours later after seeing the atrocious standards of driving would prefer the days when kids walked to school I am sure.
Frank.
Its true that the young get into accidents more often than the elderly. The stories above are much less likely to happen nowadays, because there is more supervsion of older drivers. My father in law only stopped driving around his village when my husband threatened to report him to the police if he ever went on the road again!
I could tell more stories like this. I know a man in his sixties who never drives outside the Welsh valley town he lives in. My husband had to meet him and lead him to our town because it is on the other side of the M4 and he had never crossed the motorway. He did drive to London once and was stopped on the M25, again for driving too slowly. He wasn't wearing a seat belt. When told off for this, he replied, 'Round our way we never bother.'
Hi Frank i do understand what your saying its just if you cant see you cant drive surely.
The boy racers ,well thats up to them but police seem to be a lot more on them, but id woundnt want to knock the door of a parent to tell them that my grandad as hit there
child down or killed them cas he coundnt see.