had a phone call from mum last night ...she has had a couple of calls from the home dad is having respite.....first one was to let mum know that dad was "unwell" and doctors had been called ...the secont was to let her know that dad had a couple of cracked ribs and that he had fluid on his lung as a result .....
this has happened due to his falls on his first day/night when he had several fallls.
Mum is very angry..understandably but is insiting he has never had falls in her care .....not true ...ive been visiting and witnessed these falls ,my sister too has had frantic calls when he has fell and needed hospital treatment .....the last time i visited ,he wound up falling of a stool and sliced open his nostril....very messy and needed to go to casualty .Then another fall the following day in the driveway of the house.
I am beginning to think that mum has a degree of some sort of dementia too....or am i just making excuses for her drinking .
Mum is still not talking to my two sisters ,but at least i can keep them informed of events as they unfold.......
it is such a worry .....on the day dad went off to respite she spent over £70 in the co op ..im certain it wasnt on food as she eats next to nothing ..my sister had removed any alcohol in the house at the weekend ,as advised by the duty social worker on call at the time of everything happening so i suspect the bulk of it would of been on alcohol and cigarettes.....even more woryingly ,that was on tuesday and a simillar amount was spent again two days later on thursday ........
am rambling on a bit ...thankyou for listening ...
ANNE x
this has happened due to his falls on his first day/night when he had several fallls.
Mum is very angry..understandably but is insiting he has never had falls in her care .....not true ...ive been visiting and witnessed these falls ,my sister too has had frantic calls when he has fell and needed hospital treatment .....the last time i visited ,he wound up falling of a stool and sliced open his nostril....very messy and needed to go to casualty .Then another fall the following day in the driveway of the house.
I am beginning to think that mum has a degree of some sort of dementia too....or am i just making excuses for her drinking .
Mum is still not talking to my two sisters ,but at least i can keep them informed of events as they unfold.......
it is such a worry .....on the day dad went off to respite she spent over £70 in the co op ..im certain it wasnt on food as she eats next to nothing ..my sister had removed any alcohol in the house at the weekend ,as advised by the duty social worker on call at the time of everything happening so i suspect the bulk of it would of been on alcohol and cigarettes.....even more woryingly ,that was on tuesday and a simillar amount was spent again two days later on thursday ........
am rambling on a bit ...thankyou for listening ...
ANNE x