Well after the number of falls he's been having I suppose it was inevitable but it's still a shock all the same when the home called yesterday afternoon.
It's a really bad break and the hospital said Grandad has got a chest infection as well so he is on oxygen and intravenous antibiotics.
We're just waiting to hear now whether they will operate this afternoon.
The thing I found upsetting was the fact that the hospital decided to phone my Nan at midnight last night to ask her whether she wanted a Do not resusciate order put on his records!!! Now she's not in the best of health herself and to phone at midnight! The doctor was very callous in my opinion too. When Nan said that was fine, he said "Good, cos I don't fancy jumping up and down on a 85 year olds chest"!!!!
I don't know what it is with my Grandad but any bad news always seems to come on a special day. He had the emergency admission to the nursing home at Christmas and now on Mothers Day instead of enjoying time with my children I'm worried sick about Grandad. It my Nan and Grandad's 56th anniversary on Saturday and I've got an awful sense of foreboding (sp).
It's a really bad break and the hospital said Grandad has got a chest infection as well so he is on oxygen and intravenous antibiotics.
We're just waiting to hear now whether they will operate this afternoon.
The thing I found upsetting was the fact that the hospital decided to phone my Nan at midnight last night to ask her whether she wanted a Do not resusciate order put on his records!!! Now she's not in the best of health herself and to phone at midnight! The doctor was very callous in my opinion too. When Nan said that was fine, he said "Good, cos I don't fancy jumping up and down on a 85 year olds chest"!!!!
I don't know what it is with my Grandad but any bad news always seems to come on a special day. He had the emergency admission to the nursing home at Christmas and now on Mothers Day instead of enjoying time with my children I'm worried sick about Grandad. It my Nan and Grandad's 56th anniversary on Saturday and I've got an awful sense of foreboding (sp).