Hi my mum has been told she has a dense cataract and needs surgery to remove it. Her vision is severely affected which is not helping her alzheimers. She already has dry eyes which increase the risk of complications and she does not use the drops supplied for this. She lives with my dad who is blind so he cannot instil drops for her and can't prompt her as she tells him off for telling her what to do.
I'm at my wits end trying to put a plan in place to ensure her post surgery care is adequate. She will need drops 4 times daily with a mixture of dry eye drops, steroid and antibiotic drops for varying lengths of time depending on how she heals. My brother has a 3 hour round trip and says her cannot afford to do regular visits to help with the drops drops ( self employed, no income). I can't visit 4 times daily - also look after MIL with alzheimers and cancer. I can't have them both to stay with me - dad goes mad if he cannot go out for daily walks and due to his blindness he would not be able to go out in our area. I can't have just mum staying - mum and dad have been married 66 years and dad cannot cope alone. Local authority carers won't put in eye drops . I can't put her in respite care for this period of up to 6 weeks as I then wouldn't be able to take her out for follow up visits without her being isolated in the home for 2 weeks after each visit!
I've only recently stopped daily visits to dress her leg following skin cancer surgery, that was exhausting enough. I'm not looking forward to this at all.
I'm at my wits end trying to put a plan in place to ensure her post surgery care is adequate. She will need drops 4 times daily with a mixture of dry eye drops, steroid and antibiotic drops for varying lengths of time depending on how she heals. My brother has a 3 hour round trip and says her cannot afford to do regular visits to help with the drops drops ( self employed, no income). I can't visit 4 times daily - also look after MIL with alzheimers and cancer. I can't have them both to stay with me - dad goes mad if he cannot go out for daily walks and due to his blindness he would not be able to go out in our area. I can't have just mum staying - mum and dad have been married 66 years and dad cannot cope alone. Local authority carers won't put in eye drops . I can't put her in respite care for this period of up to 6 weeks as I then wouldn't be able to take her out for follow up visits without her being isolated in the home for 2 weeks after each visit!
I've only recently stopped daily visits to dress her leg following skin cancer surgery, that was exhausting enough. I'm not looking forward to this at all.