I am fuming at the moment but am not sure why! The care home were finally getting the vaccinations for residents today ( postponed from last week for some reason) but my Mum refused to have it! She has been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as not having capacity to make decisions but I’m not sure if the GP asked her if she wanted it or if she kicked off. I have POA and have given consent but I guess they could not physically restrain her to stick the needle in!
I’m going to phone both the care home and the GP tomorrow to see if she will get the chance to have the vaccination another time. If my sister was there, mum would do as she was told, there’s no messing about with my sister but with Covid, that won’t happen. I hope they did not try to explain what the jab was for as she thinks we are all liars when we talk about the virus, lockdown, deaths etc and she tells us off for believing what we read in the papers! She had her flu jab willingly only a few weeks ago so is not scared of needles but my brother, who had a pod visit this afternoon, said she was in a very bad mood and very narky!
I’m going to phone both the care home and the GP tomorrow to see if she will get the chance to have the vaccination another time. If my sister was there, mum would do as she was told, there’s no messing about with my sister but with Covid, that won’t happen. I hope they did not try to explain what the jab was for as she thinks we are all liars when we talk about the virus, lockdown, deaths etc and she tells us off for believing what we read in the papers! She had her flu jab willingly only a few weeks ago so is not scared of needles but my brother, who had a pod visit this afternoon, said she was in a very bad mood and very narky!