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Feel Good Friday - feel good about yourself-

Hello all, I am late today posting this but the reason being I have been in a quandary as to what to write today? Do I write an inspirational quote, or give...

Hello all, I am late today posting this but the reason being I have been in a qu...

•5 years ago

Results ARE In Dad’s Suffering Congestive Heart Failure & Diabetes Peripheral Circulatory Complications.

Well got dad’s discharge summary AND it’s not looking good. Seem’s well in he’s self and Guess is better Of at home if it’s grim like I surspect. I could not...

Well got dad’s discharge summary AND it’s not looking good. Seem’s well in he’s ...

•5 years ago

Not really related to my caring role but...

To say I am stressed out of my mind would be an understatement,but for the past few months I have had problems using my left hand ,3 fingers are numb,so...

To say I am stressed out of my mind would be an understatement,but for the past ...

•5 years ago

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Well WE Decided DADs Comeing Home 🏠 Any Appointmeans We Will Decide As When.

Dad coming home and is not well enough to go through trauma of appointment’s unless to aid home treatment make him more comfortable. On issue of dad NOT really...

Dad coming home and is not well enough to go through trauma of appointment’s unl...

•5 years ago

Doctors Phone Calls & Decision’s Wish Did Not Have To Make.

Had call of dad’s hospital doctor TO go see them re update. Turn’s out shadow on dad’s lung is something to worry about HOSPITAL want to discharge dad WITH...

Had call of dad’s hospital doctor TO go see them re update. Turn’s out shadow on...

•5 years ago

Thursday DAD Went Hospital With Chest Pains ...

Well dad went hospital with chest pains given he was not quite right I tried getting doctor to do ecg 2 days befour dad went hospital. He refused saying would...

Well dad went hospital with chest pains given he was not quite right I tried get...

•5 years ago

Feeling guilty

My husband had a brain stem stroke 2yrs ago, since then lve spent all my time looking after him, hes unable to walk, paralised down the right side, lve just...

My husband had a brain stem stroke 2yrs ago, since then lve spent all my time lo...

•5 years ago

Feel Good Friday

Welcome back to Feel Good Friday, Looking at today’s date it’s hard to believe that Christmas is only a month away and that I’ll soon be putting up the tree...

Welcome back to Feel Good Friday, Looking at today’s date it’s hard to believe ...

•5 years ago

Older people

I was working in an area with bad WiFi so had to go to a bank to do some online banking, the cashier gave me a larger card reader than the normal size, I...

I was working in an area with bad WiFi so had to go to a bank to do some online ...

•5 years ago

Distressing news what's going on

My mum was taken ill while shopping and was taken by ambulance to hospital she had a very high blood pressure and when she arrived they took some blood tests...

My mum was taken ill while shopping and was taken by ambulance to hospital she h...

•5 years ago

food

I wonder what is in our food, I love chicken but ive noticed every time I eat chicken now it makes me ill light headed sick so no more chicken. ive had other...

I wonder what is in our food, I love chicken but ive noticed every time I eat c...

•5 years ago

Progressive

Further to a post I made a while ago , my husband is now referred to the local hospice and has an initial appt in a weeks time . He is even more unpleasant so...

Further to a post I made a while ago , my husband is now referred to the local h...

•5 years ago

Dementia Alzheimer’s & The Cat 🐈

I think that’s as good as dementia Alzheimer’s Care gets in UK. My cat and us have done more than any GP or social worker when it comes to my dad’s dementia...

I think that’s as good as dementia Alzheimer’s Care gets in UK. My cat and us ha...

•5 years ago

Feel Good Friday

Hello everyone, Welcome to this week's 'Feelgood Friday'. How was your week? For my six pence worth I woke up this morning and decided that today is going to...

Hello everyone, Welcome to this week's 'Feelgood Friday'. How was your week? Fo...

•5 years ago

My sister's just rung

The home rang her to say mum is in hospital, my sister finishes work at 5.00 it's an hour journey over so we're not going in tonight, personally, I'm hoping...

The home rang her to say mum is in hospital, my sister finishes work at 5.00 it'...

•5 years ago

Does mum need to go into hospital

Mum's care home have just rung my sister to say the Doctor has visited and her haemagloblin levels are low and she should go into hospital for a blood...

Mum's care home have just rung my sister to say the Doctor has visited and her h...

•5 years ago

End of Life - Stop/start eating and drinking

Hello My mom is 87 and in a nursing home due to vascular dementia. She has been really poorly for the last three weeks and was put on 'End of Life care' last...

Hello My mom is 87 and in a nursing home due to vascular dementia. She has been ...

•5 years ago

With Dementia Alzheimer’s You Get Over ONE Issues And Other JUST As Bad Raises Its Head.

Well things are deteriorating with my dad HIS lost is sight NOT eye 👁 related but dementia Alzheimer’s. He can no longer manage getting in out car on is own...

Well things are deteriorating with my dad HIS lost is sight NOT eye 👁 related b...

•5 years ago

That guilty feeling....

I really do hate dementia and seeing my poor mum trying to carry on as normal. In the last few weeks she has put antiseptic lotion in her eyes instead of...

I really do hate dementia and seeing my poor mum trying to carry on as normal. ...

•5 years ago

Dad being thrown out of nursing home

Hello, Well, as a follow-up to the most dreadful week, it now transpires that dad has to leave his nursing home as they say that they can't cope with his type...

Hello, Well, as a follow-up to the most dreadful week, it now transpires that da...

•5 years ago

Feel Good Friday

Hello Everyone. Hope you are all okay and the week has been good to you so far. It’s a couple of weeks now since summertime ended and for me that marks the...

Hello Everyone. Hope you are all okay and the week has been good to you so far. ...

•5 years ago

NWR.....not for me

I used the contact us button on the website, and yesterday I received a reply, they meet evenings in people's homes, age wise the youngest would appear to be...

I used the contact us button on the website, and yesterday I received a reply, t...

•5 years ago

Mouth is sore

In July this year I was taken in hospital for a week as I had very bad chest infection and was put on antibiotics and air. I have copd overlap asthma but it...

In July this year I was taken in hospital for a week as I had very bad chest inf...

•5 years ago

Nursing Home not safe and Dad being moved

Hello, I have written before about my father who is in and out of hospital, whilst I live over 100 miles away. He has two safeguarding measures against the...

Hello, I have written before about my father who is in and out of hospital, whil...

•5 years ago

Lots of health problems

COPD. ASTHMA. ARTHRITIS. PTSD. ANXIETY. OBESITY. and staying positive is so hard for me. I once was an very active person but now I find it hard to go swimming...

COPD. ASTHMA. ARTHRITIS. PTSD. ANXIETY. OBESITY. and staying positive is so hard...

•5 years ago

Finding a social life

Just over a year now since I was registered blind and having to make big changes to my life, I'm still trying to find a social life (I've been going to a...

Just over a year now since I was registered blind and having to make big changes...

•5 years ago

Help needed please

I don’t know if anyone’s had any experience with this or knows what is causing it but I would appreciate any advice, comforting or not, on this problem. Since...

I don’t know if anyone’s had any experience with this or knows what is causing i...

•5 years ago

Snuggle update

My family of snuggle bears are growing They are for the residents on my EMI unit who have fidgety hands . We have the muffs and sensory blankets along with the...

My family of snuggle bears are growing They are for the residents on my EMI unit...

•5 years ago

Snuggle

The home where I work has just designed a snuggle bear that fits over residents fingers This is my first attempt of knitting one

The home where I work has just designed a snuggle bear that fits over residents ...

•5 years ago

Feel Good Friday

Hello Everyone. Well here is another Friday. The seasons are changing and bonfires will be burning over the next few days. I was wondering what memories the...

Hello Everyone. Well here is another Friday. The seasons are changing and bonfir...

•5 years ago

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