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[Loopylou2]

Hi my name is Joyce and I am a carer for my brother who is a double amputee and diabetic

[jaykay777]

Welcome, Joyce. Your brother is fortunate to have his sister as a carer. It's good to see how How old is he? Do you both live in the same place? It's good to see how, in the last ten years, technology has improved devices to aid amputees.

[Loopylou2 in reply to jaykay777]

Hi jaykay my brother is 72 I am his full time carer but I don't live in.I enjoy looking after him but sometimes I find it hard

[Morgantaylor]

Hi, I care for my mother who is a double amputee she is 82 years old, is diabetic and suffers vascular dementia. My mother lives in her own home with my father who is 87. Carers come in 4 times daily. I se to all laundry, shopping etc. I have a very good friend who comes to stay with with my mother 3 times weekly to enable my father, who still drives, to be able to go out and about for a few hours to have a break. Just had ceiling hoists installed which shall hopefully make things a little easier than using manual hoists. It is not easy as mother due to dementia gets quite agitated some days and won't let Carers attend to her so either myself or my father gets called to her room to calm her down and eventually coax her to let Carers see to her. i was called out at 2.15 am this morning by the alarm system as mother was at bottom of bed and had ripped her continence pad into pieces. My father who has hearing problem didn't hear alarm so I get a phone call from community team to attend. I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis so not feel the best this morn after changing and handling mother in the early hours. Is your brother able to get around and see to himself, do you get help with his care. It is so difficult to see loved ones suffer this way.

[Loopylou2]

Hi Morgan Taylor I have little help with my brother I have Tuesdays off and my sister goes in and tends to him he is now 72 and getting forgetful so I have to remind him about his medications twice this month I have been called in at night because he has pulled his careline cord as he has either wet himself trying to get out of bed or he has not taken his insulin and is not very well

[Morgantaylor in reply to Loopylou2]

I feel for you Loopylou2, it is so hard isint it, especially being called out during the night. I see to my mums medication, I set it up for 8 days in medication packs, so either my dad gives mum her medication or I do. We actually put the tablets in her mouth and wait to check she has swallowed them. There are times she refuses to take her meds so my dad calls me and I go and give them. I bully my mum in the nicest way to get her take them. You can have Carers give the meds but I didn't want them to do this, if my mum refused to take them they cannot force them on her and then she would end up being ill. Does your brother have a commode in his bedroom, this would be useful for him. Stay strong and keep going Loopylou2. X