Last night I came home from work, the oven was left on, dad had obviously decided to make himself a second dinner (forgetting he had the first). He managed to cook it, but the pan had burnt food on it and house was smelling like burnt food (although thats probably because he hadn't realised the oven was still on).
I checked the carers book, it said she met him outside the house, for whatever reason (he had a lottery ticket in his wallet, so probably went to buy one from the papershop which is a short walk away) he decided to leave the house at somepoint in the afternoon, he didn't have his keys or phone.
He was sitting on the couch, forgetting he's not supposed to, as he has a seat to sit on with a special cushion for his incontenence. He was a pain all evening, telling me I didn't want to feed him, refusing to get changed and refusing to go to bed... but we got there in the end. I managed to eat some dinner myself at 11pm. It only seems to be at night he becomes this way.
I was up at 6am to check his blood sugars and wash up the burnt pan from the night before, they were fine (actualy they've been pretty good for a few days) so I didn't need to do any extra insulin, Luckily dad seems to want to just sleep in the morning, so I managed to get myself some porridge and get ready for work.
The district nurse arrived around half 7, dad's bed was drenched with urine (we have been putting on two thick incontence pads at night time which still isn't doing the job), he has been refusing to wear the temporary catheter thing at night (the one that you put a condom type thing over the penis and it takes the urine into the bag). To be honest I do not wish to fight him over this every night, but I think we are going to have to. His blood sugars were fine....
I got an email from Age UK, as I had asked them that we need help with forms etc. They told me, they couldn't help for the next 6-8 weeks, but would put us on a waiting list.