Iâve mentioned this before.
Our 102 yr old neighbour still lives on her own and has carers round 4x day. She is absolutely determined not to go to a home
But
She keeps falling over and she lays there until the carers turn up. The carers are not allowed to pick her up in case she has an injury. So the are calling an ambulance.
The ambulance has been called out 4 times this week including twice yesterday and thatâs just the times Iâve noticed
Surely enough is enough?
Youâre not suggesting what I think youâre suggesting, are you?
Its Ok - she is not the lighter of bonfires or the keeper of cats
reading sales ads for puppies bought during lockdown, no longer wanted now they are back to work. Sons of unmarried parents
Yeah it was always going to happen. People who have never realised where our local common was until they decided they could legitimately break the lockdown by taking up running, cycling and walking in the countryside. The influx of newbies has driven a lot of regular dog walkers now go out earlier to avoid them but you can see the cogs whirring when they stop our dogs to make a fuss of them with their kids saying, weâre getting one soon.
Oh dear. 
Arrrggh.
I hurt all over.
2 hours of weeding the veggie patch by hand followed by an hour of hitting golf balls & going 50 yards or so past the bucket I was aiming at.
Ooooh me back.
Need to up the exercise level from pouring Vodka/driving to shop to walking.
Bollox
A new twist
Seems that the old bird took quite a nasty fall this week and now she has to have 2 carers 4x a day and one for the entire night all paid for by the NHS - this arrangement will be indefinite
It also turns out that the reason she isnât in a home is not her wish to remain in her house, itâs her kids trying to preserve their inheritance.
At some point the NHS has to say no more - itâs not the best for her nor is it the best for the NHS.
Equally this should NOT be the familyâs responsibility.
But thatâs another thread.
It wouldnât be, would it. When relatives of mine have reached that position, their house may be used to fund their care fees, or part of the proceeds used later when itâs eventually sold. The relatives werenât asked to put their hands in their own pockets. The house presumably belongs to the elderly lady, and these days someoneâs house is very often their main or only asset.
Nothing is black and white though. I saw this with my old Nan last year. She lived in the same Council house (rented) since it was built, some 70 years previously. She had most of her memories whilst living in this place, but ill health - with an ever increasing list of maladies - saw her require carers to come in every day for the latter stages of her life. My Mum was a trooper, essentially looking after her every day for 4 years before she could no longer do it. When the care assessor came (donât think it was NHS but a LA employee), we floated the idea of a care home, but she said the trauma of leaving the house would be worse and more costly than having carers visit. So the schedule was set up for visits for a number of things from meals to washing to treating ulcers on her legs.
But when it gets to this stage it is not an indefinite situation. The old girl was brown bread within 3 months. Tried to get up in the night and fell, puncturing a rib which caused heart failure. Poor carer had to find her the next morning. Hazard of the job, I guess.
And if it were down to me, i certainly wouldnât want any elderly relative of mine put in a care home at the moment. A family friend of the Duchess had to find a care home for her husband when he was told to leave Hospital at the end of March. He has dementia and was in for some treatment following an accident, but was too difficult to care for at home. She managed to get him into a care home and hasnât seen him since. She doesnât know if heâll survive as the care home has had some cases of covid-19 and obviously, there are no visits allowed. Getting him into a care home could be the last time she seeâs him.
Apologies for wittering on, but I think itâs a Local Authority decision and not an NHS one (not sure) and it seems to me itâs not always a simple black and white decision.
You are right it is LA, not the NHS decision - I lumped them together, probably because of the number of ambulances I have seen recently.
I also get not wanting to put them in a care home right now given Covid, but this has been going on for longer than Covid. I would get it if the carers only came once or twice a day, but the level to which she needs care is 24 hrs / 7 days a week.
An evening watching real golf sans fans.
On The Golf Channel.
Meaning HOURS of American TVads.
Did you know William Shatner had sleep disorder & nowrecommendsa plastic box to clean domestic medical appliances?
Or that a monthly Voice, Text & Data plan costs $20 a month?
7 hours ago, I had a fry up, having found some Pork & Leek bangers at the bottom of the fridge
I had them with bacon, eggs, mushroom, tomato & a whole tin of beans.
I still havenât been able to fart.
So what retarded bell end thinks that midnight is a good time to start setting off fireworks?
Cock ends
Obviously a scouserâŚ
Next doorâs builders starting up at 7.30am when I have a day off.
Absolute Cunts!!
Slugs. Cunts.
OoooâŚlook at my gold cuff buttonsâŚCunt.
He fulfils the requirements of both slug and cunt.
