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My beautiful mother has been in her care home for about 4 years. She has deteriorated lately and today the manager said he thinks she is possibly at end of life. The thing is, she has a UTI and if that could be treated I think she would be ok. Our difficulty is that she will not take medication (tried everything) so the only way to get antibiotics in her is through an IV and last time we decided enough was enough and took her to A&E we had a 9 hour wait with mum needing the loo repeatedly and myself and my sister not able to manage to help her well. Someone (some sort of community nurse) came to assess her today at the request of the care home. He said she has an infection but not bad enough to need emergency ambulance so it would be a 4 hour wait for transport and then a however long wait at A&E. I think that would have finished her off so we put her to bed.
I just can’t believe how many barriers there seem to be for something as simple as IV rehydration and antibiotics. Her GP is useless. Tried to get her moved but the GP in catchment won’t take patients from her care home because of some historic argument. I feel like we just go round and round in circles watching Mum get worse because no one will help.
My beautiful mother has been in her care home for about 4 years. She has deteriorated lately and today the manager said he thinks she is possibly at end of life. The thing is, she has a UTI and if that could be treated I think she would be ok. Our difficulty is that she will not take medication (tried everything) so the only way to get antibiotics in her is through an IV and last time we decided enough was enough and took her to A&E we had a 9 hour wait with mum needing the loo repeatedly and myself and my sister not able to manage to help her well. Someone (some sort of community nurse) came to assess her today at the request of the care home. He said she has an infection but not bad enough to need emergency ambulance so it would be a 4 hour wait for transport and then a however long wait at A&E. I think that would have finished her off so we put her to bed.
I just can’t believe how many barriers there seem to be for something as simple as IV rehydration and antibiotics. Her GP is useless. Tried to get her moved but the GP in catchment won’t take patients from her care home because of some historic argument. I feel like we just go round and round in circles watching Mum get worse because no one will help.