Had almost the day from hell today, Dad phoned not feeling well, so called for Dr to come out to him, went round there at 9am to wait for Dr, then got phone call from carehome saying Mum had been taken to hospital with chest pains and could I go down there as there maybe decisions to be made, Help,I thought, I cannot be in two places, so had to go to my sisters place of work, which I could not for the life of me remember the name of Playgroup she worked for, fortunately I knew it was in a community centre, so Police helped me find which one it was. Got Sis back to Dads to sit with him to wait for Dr then drove to hospital. Mum already being seen by Dr and had ecg and blood pressure, blood tests done, didnt look too bad but blood pressure was 220/100 so they decided to keep her in and gave her some drug to bring blood pressure down fast it was some infusion thing. Anyway once they left us on our own groundhog day started, Where amI, why am I here, I want to go home, wheres my HUsband, Dad, Mum, nobody has been to see me yet ahhhhhh every 2 minutes like the tape had got stuck, she was shouting let me go home, someone sort me out, irritatingly I could hear some of the nurses laughing about it behind the curtain. I nearly went out there to say ok I will go home and you can deal with her then you wouldnt be laughing but I decided Mum was already making enough of a scene so perhaps I shouldnt add to it. Finally we got taken to a ward, staff seem nice, I explained about Mums dementia and the nurse said that the home had sent a detailed booklet about Mum and her life history, so I was pleased with that, settled Mum who still wanted to go home and finally got home about 7pm, I feel shattered and stressed, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day Thanks for letting me rant xx
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