I had to take mum to see a eye specialist consultant at are local PCT clinic as mum is diabetic, they organise transport and we pick mum up at day centre to take her to her appointment . While mum said “why don’t they leave me alone “I can see OK?
After mum screaming her head of, when they spray something in her eye, to do the test, turn out that mum got really bad cataract in one eye .
Which I knew, as last year in December 07 , mum was told she had it , but was not as bad as this year, last year mum stress about going did not like going , so I never went back . This appointment was made before telling me anything, transport arriving at my door, while mum was at day centre. So I went with transport man to pick mum up to take her to appointment.
So the specialist experience mum screaming in not wanting to cooperate, so now understand why I did not want to bring mum back in the first place . Only with me reassuring mum did mum cooperate doing the entire test. It was all for her own good, I keep telling mum while mum telling us all , "she can see people in the street & at home she sleep, so she OK , thank you very much , but she not coming anymore "
Specialist tell me that it’s not good getting mum to have a local anaesthetic, as she won’t cooperate , putting mum under completely is not good as mum has VD . Seeing mum say she OK, it could be that the good eye that not got the ccataract is working the bad eye to see .
All I could think of is how true that is ( local anaesthetic ) because I have read that on TP, that having general anaesthetic I think it’s call general when they knock you out completely can take the dementia worse .
But then I think what can be worse than being blind and having a dementia as mum doctor said a few years ago , that it mum does not go for her eye check up , she be blind with dementia is not a nice thing to happen .
When mum got home , she said will they put me to sleep , as transport man said I should get mum cataract removed , mum ask me what he said I told her .
Is it worth the risk , of making the Demetria worse?
Or just let mum go blind , if she does not get it removed .
After mum screaming her head of, when they spray something in her eye, to do the test, turn out that mum got really bad cataract in one eye .
Which I knew, as last year in December 07 , mum was told she had it , but was not as bad as this year, last year mum stress about going did not like going , so I never went back . This appointment was made before telling me anything, transport arriving at my door, while mum was at day centre. So I went with transport man to pick mum up to take her to appointment.
So the specialist experience mum screaming in not wanting to cooperate, so now understand why I did not want to bring mum back in the first place . Only with me reassuring mum did mum cooperate doing the entire test. It was all for her own good, I keep telling mum while mum telling us all , "she can see people in the street & at home she sleep, so she OK , thank you very much , but she not coming anymore "
Specialist tell me that it’s not good getting mum to have a local anaesthetic, as she won’t cooperate , putting mum under completely is not good as mum has VD . Seeing mum say she OK, it could be that the good eye that not got the ccataract is working the bad eye to see .
All I could think of is how true that is ( local anaesthetic ) because I have read that on TP, that having general anaesthetic I think it’s call general when they knock you out completely can take the dementia worse .
But then I think what can be worse than being blind and having a dementia as mum doctor said a few years ago , that it mum does not go for her eye check up , she be blind with dementia is not a nice thing to happen .
When mum got home , she said will they put me to sleep , as transport man said I should get mum cataract removed , mum ask me what he said I told her .
Is it worth the risk , of making the Demetria worse?
Or just let mum go blind , if she does not get it removed .
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