I do think you are right. However I have a problem, or rather had a problem. I used to have to put people into a group, (not literally but something that would allow a code on a computer) when they needed treatment. Easy when there is a specific diagnosis, Parkinson's Disease or leg fracture etc. There was a group who needed help, often to avoid the first accident of old age, balance exercises or something similar. Just about everywhere I worked this group was coded as "Elderly Frail", I actually thought "Rusting at the Edges" might be just as good, I am now happy to be part of this "Rusting" reminds me of an old Fiat I had, who had badly rusting sills, do not think I could have used a jack on her!! It is unfortunate that in order to code what time is spent on, we cease to be "people".
Back in the day, on wards for older people, in order to encourage them to eat, and because it was thought to be good for them, there was a round with half pints of Guiness. Enjoyed very much, shame no longer happens!!
We are far cheaper than Ski's funeral services whose services one can employ should our medical services not give complete satisfaction or fail to keep you alive x
Ok my love,i have fulfilled your prescription and your elixir of life is in the post unfortunately your preventive medicine Guinness has a shorter shelf life and i have had to dispose of it orally. xx
Well you cheeky chappie, disposing of my preventative medicine is just not on, will need to have a word with Hypercat, I believe she has a good walking stick that could be put to use x
Ha ha. if it makes you feel any better Don I am over 20 years younger than you but coz I now use a stick I get people thinking I am frail too! Being me I take advantage of it though... xx
I've no idea what is on my medical records, Pete, I try to steer clear of gentlemen of that profession. My GP was a young man when I first met him, he now works part-time in preparation for retirement. My daughter is one of his patients and he asks her how I am when she sees him. That fulfils both our requirements.
YOU, Never Frail Don, Can't be with your Strong Mind to keep us ALL from getting there. Keep your Faculties going and Have a Beer or Two with Ski's. Now, That's another Story, The Man & His Feline .xxxx
Read a leaflet about frailty from Gloucestershire County Council recently. I ticked all the boxes except the last one which said ‘mental decline’. Decided by that definition I wasn’t frail and neither are you Don! Definitely a long way to go yet! Keep well xxx
Wow nearly two fat ladies don and going STRONG. Keep rolling out the great rhymes
My ailment isn't as well documented as most on here. I smoked a pipe all my working life and had a 'smoker's cough' and regular bouts of bronchitis since I can't remember when. I retired in 1989, not on health grounds but because I could afford to. I was finally treated for asthma from 2001 and managed well enough until I slept in a room with a new carpet and was rushed to hospital unable to breath in or out in 2007. Whilst in there I was visited by a chap with a bunch of admiring student trailing behind him who I took to be the consultant. I managed to interrupt him chatting to the students to ask him what the diagnosis was. He just replied COPD over his shoulder as he walked away. That was the first time I had heard of it. Since then I have been under the care of a number Respiratory Nurses working from my GP's surgery and between them (and the folk on this group) have come up with inhalers and tablets which keep me ticking over very nicely. I have to use my rescue packs more often than I would like, but I refuse to see any 'consultant' or undergo further tests other than spirometry, which the Respiratory Nurse does and gives us both a laugh.
So you see why I never give advice on here about medication, treatments etc as I have so little knowledge of even my own. And I wouldn't advise anyone to take the cavalier attitude towards their ailment which I'm told I have. I see my function here solely as an entertainer. 🤡
I have had a cavalier attitude towards my heart problem since is was diagnosed in 1961, when they thought surgery cured it. Sixty years later I am discovering things I apparently shouldn’t have been doing, like travelling and working in a remote part of the world, having two children, although my obstetrician refused to let me have any more because his nerves couldn’t stand it! Both my cardiologist and my lung doctor, neither of whom have known me long, say they don’t know what I am doing but to keep on doing it as it obviously works! So whatever it is you are doing Don I suggest the best you can do is keep on doing it! All the best and love to Midge xxx
I am unused to 'frail' people getting out and about our sceptred isle in an extremely elegant camper van Cap'n - especially cavorting with females of the cloth - one of whom appears to imbibe copious amounts of I'm not sure what - so I do not envisage you ever managing to fit that description - not even when you reach 97!
p.s. Perhaps SirSki would like to correct his 'and' to an and to enlarge his little i . . .
So that twinge i felt in the middle of the night wasn't my imagination and i have once again been bitten by she who has fangs who will be sleeping now that it is daylight.i shall return to the said passage at my convenience and maybe to correct my awful grammar. xx
You mean you did not notice the puncture marks near the jugular? How unobservant you are today SirSki! I trust you will make those corrections shortly or do I infer that you are no longer capable of enlargement of those miniscule terms of self?
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