Hi everyone,
I'm new here so "Hi" to everyone,
I'm my mum's carer and gave been since 2004 when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer, she beat that, they then told us she had bone cancer and was treated with radiotherapy, we were then called in after a check up and they had made a mistake and it was osteoarthritis (I think that's the former of arthritis it is),
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She then had a Tim 3 years ago, she was showing signs she had a stroke so she'd was admitted,
She now has dementia, it's seriously suddenly got do much worse, I found her on the floor screeming my name, I found her fallen, on the bathroom floor covered in diariahh,
I called 999, her blood pressure was low and she was admitted, they the released her the next day
The problem I'm having at the moment is she is putting her sanitary towels down the toilet and blocking it, she has a bin next to the toilet but just won't use it and we can't control her diariahh even with 10 loperamide a day (doctors advice) but still nothing, we have both been getting a lot of bugs, stomach aches, sickness and I know why now, when she goes to the toilet I found her hands covered in not very nice stuff, so she was wiping with her hand and not washing them,
I check her hands now every time she goes to the toilet and dissenfected everywhere,
Any tips, advice would be appreciated, she refuses social services help and when they used to visit she would not say a word on 3 occasions, they gave up so did I,
I'm very depressed and am in tears a lot and have depression but this is a situation I don't have a clue how to cope,
I watch her diet , Have a list of foods not to feed for diahhorria so it's not an issue with food,
I look forward to any, any advice or tips you may save my sanity
Thanks
Rob
I'm new here so "Hi" to everyone,
I'm my mum's carer and gave been since 2004 when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer, she beat that, they then told us she had bone cancer and was treated with radiotherapy, we were then called in after a check up and they had made a mistake and it was osteoarthritis (I think that's the former of arthritis it is),
.
She then had a Tim 3 years ago, she was showing signs she had a stroke so she'd was admitted,
She now has dementia, it's seriously suddenly got do much worse, I found her on the floor screeming my name, I found her fallen, on the bathroom floor covered in diariahh,
I called 999, her blood pressure was low and she was admitted, they the released her the next day
The problem I'm having at the moment is she is putting her sanitary towels down the toilet and blocking it, she has a bin next to the toilet but just won't use it and we can't control her diariahh even with 10 loperamide a day (doctors advice) but still nothing, we have both been getting a lot of bugs, stomach aches, sickness and I know why now, when she goes to the toilet I found her hands covered in not very nice stuff, so she was wiping with her hand and not washing them,
I check her hands now every time she goes to the toilet and dissenfected everywhere,
Any tips, advice would be appreciated, she refuses social services help and when they used to visit she would not say a word on 3 occasions, they gave up so did I,
I'm very depressed and am in tears a lot and have depression but this is a situation I don't have a clue how to cope,
I watch her diet , Have a list of foods not to feed for diahhorria so it's not an issue with food,
I look forward to any, any advice or tips you may save my sanity
Thanks
Rob