MIL triggered the motion sensor at 6.45 this morning and I found her on her hands and knees half way from the house to the annexe. Managed to get her up and inside but she could hardly walk, shuffling really.
Then to my horror I began to realise that she’d been out there a long time. Her knees are a complete mess, hands and elbows scratched , very cold and talking gibberish. Her handbag and some clothes were in the garden, covered in frost
Looks as if she came out of her patio doors on her hands and knees which is how she avoided the motion sensor. She was up and wandering about inside at 2.30am when I got up to go to loo.
Himself called 999 whilst I changed her pyjama trousers, bathed her knees and the between us we managed to get her into bed wrapped in her fleece dressing gown, a fleece blanket and under her duvet to try and warm her up.
Ambulance was only a few mins and the paramedics were wonderful. She has hypothermia although not too bad considering how flipping cold it is here and the fact that we don’t know how long she’d been there, temp was just under 33 degrees.
Obviously her knees are a mess but the puzzling thing is that her blood sugar was very high at 11.3. The only thing that was missing was a chocolate roll that she had eaten sometime since I put her to bed at 10.30pm.
I’m so glad that she’ll get a good checking over now. I just knew something was wrong earlier in the week when I wrote my previous thread but being so tired and wound up myself I didn’t trust my judgement and allowed myself to question if it was just me unable to cope.
Guess I won’t need that GP phone consultation in the morning
Then to my horror I began to realise that she’d been out there a long time. Her knees are a complete mess, hands and elbows scratched , very cold and talking gibberish. Her handbag and some clothes were in the garden, covered in frost
Looks as if she came out of her patio doors on her hands and knees which is how she avoided the motion sensor. She was up and wandering about inside at 2.30am when I got up to go to loo.
Himself called 999 whilst I changed her pyjama trousers, bathed her knees and the between us we managed to get her into bed wrapped in her fleece dressing gown, a fleece blanket and under her duvet to try and warm her up.
Ambulance was only a few mins and the paramedics were wonderful. She has hypothermia although not too bad considering how flipping cold it is here and the fact that we don’t know how long she’d been there, temp was just under 33 degrees.
Obviously her knees are a mess but the puzzling thing is that her blood sugar was very high at 11.3. The only thing that was missing was a chocolate roll that she had eaten sometime since I put her to bed at 10.30pm.
I’m so glad that she’ll get a good checking over now. I just knew something was wrong earlier in the week when I wrote my previous thread but being so tired and wound up myself I didn’t trust my judgement and allowed myself to question if it was just me unable to cope.
Guess I won’t need that GP phone consultation in the morning
