...... but mum has been rushed into hospital this afternoon from the NH - after more than two weeks of asking GP and Intermediate docs and NH staff to take my concerns seriously that mum really did need medical investigations beyond the effects that infections were taking on her mental health alone I now have her in an Emergency Assessment Unit at our local hospital ....... this the result of me badgering for referral and results of blood tests taken at the NH only yesterday tea-time (by the visiting docs) showing serious concerns when initial results were phoned through to me late this afternoon ...... by which time a hospital bed and ambulance had already been booked .......
Immediate concern was her dehydration ...... just wait til I get my hands on those 'fluid' charts they have been keeping at the NH ....... and the Ambulance Crew that arrived were disgusted that I / we nearly got her out of there without one member of staff (who were present around the corridors and couldn't have failed to see the ambulance arrive as I did, let alone my waving attention to them ..... ) not bothering to get off their ar*es (sorry) and do ANYTHING -- including preparing essential paperwork which should have been completed as soon as her impending 'discharge' to hospital was known ..... One of the crew asked me 'How long do you think it would be before they noticed she was missing?' I have asked, and he has agreed willingly, to put in a formal complaint about the home as a professional.
What on earth would have happened if I hadn't been able to get back there in time for the ambulance arriving?
Mum is finally on a drip and being pumped with calcium and potassium ....... awaiting investigations ...... her memory ... well it's shot ......lucidity - even wakefulness - is almost gone ..... and I just cannot hold on to any hope that we will ever be anywhere near where we were before these infections struck her ..... stuck now because I can't visit/ring outside of scheduled times just now unless I get a phone call from the Unit .... but at least I know she is far better looked after and there might be some hope - other than seeing her waste away in an environment which simply didn't understand the meaning of 'care' ..... pretty as it was ..... if I can now get her physical needs addressed there may still be hope yet ...... But not for anyone in the NH when I have wiped the floor with them with the CSCI or anyone else who will listen .......
Karen,
Immediate concern was her dehydration ...... just wait til I get my hands on those 'fluid' charts they have been keeping at the NH ....... and the Ambulance Crew that arrived were disgusted that I / we nearly got her out of there without one member of staff (who were present around the corridors and couldn't have failed to see the ambulance arrive as I did, let alone my waving attention to them ..... ) not bothering to get off their ar*es (sorry) and do ANYTHING -- including preparing essential paperwork which should have been completed as soon as her impending 'discharge' to hospital was known ..... One of the crew asked me 'How long do you think it would be before they noticed she was missing?' I have asked, and he has agreed willingly, to put in a formal complaint about the home as a professional.
What on earth would have happened if I hadn't been able to get back there in time for the ambulance arriving?
Mum is finally on a drip and being pumped with calcium and potassium ....... awaiting investigations ...... her memory ... well it's shot ......lucidity - even wakefulness - is almost gone ..... and I just cannot hold on to any hope that we will ever be anywhere near where we were before these infections struck her ..... stuck now because I can't visit/ring outside of scheduled times just now unless I get a phone call from the Unit .... but at least I know she is far better looked after and there might be some hope - other than seeing her waste away in an environment which simply didn't understand the meaning of 'care' ..... pretty as it was ..... if I can now get her physical needs addressed there may still be hope yet ...... But not for anyone in the NH when I have wiped the floor with them with the CSCI or anyone else who will listen .......
Karen,