The last straw.
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I'm a dog owner myself and get so cross when you find some selfish barsteward has left their animal's poo. What is it with people? You are having a rotten lousy time of it all at the moment, and hope things improve. Love, hugs and cyber flowers xxxxxx
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(((Bemused))) that fall must have felt like the last straw at the time! The few inconsiderate dog owners do give everyone else a bad name
I do hope that your increased pain doesn't hang around for long. I'm struggling with pain today, I can't imagine having to carry on and physically care for someone else.
(((Bemused))) that fall must have felt like the last straw at the time! The few inconsiderate dog owners do give everyone else a bad name
I do hope that your increased pain doesn't hang around for long. I'm struggling with pain today, I can't imagine having to carry on and physically care for someone else.Thanks Scarlett and slugsta. Yes its really infuriating for those of us who try to make dog owning acceptable to all. I'm fine, got husband back to bed as usual, but I have badly twisted my knee which on top of arthritis is no joke, as you know Scarlett.
I owe a big thank you to the girl who was with us this morning. She has a chronic health condition but never let's us down _ This morning she was as pale as a ghost but she won't go off sick if she can avoid it because she knows people depend on her. She's only 21 but a lot of older people in the caring world could take lessons from her.
I owe a big thank you to the girl who was with us this morning. She has a chronic health condition but never let's us down _ This morning she was as pale as a ghost but she won't go off sick if she can avoid it because she knows people depend on her. She's only 21 but a lot of older people in the caring world could take lessons from her.
I just hope that this young lady doesn't ruin her own health in the process! I speak from experience, I damaged my back in my 20s (nursing, back in the late 70s), limped on for a further 30 years but am now retired due to a worsening of the condition.
I agree Bemused, but it's also about being trained and encouraged to use the equipment provided. When I was in hozzie I was always moaning at the nurses for bending rather than adjusting the height of the beds etc! We need to get away from the idea (which was prevalent in my day) that doing things manually is somehow clever.
It still persists in the care sector unfortunately. I regularly hear 'I can do that on my own' and my reply is if you had to do it day in day out for someone who is dependent on you , you might not be so keen. I can't so I have everything in place that I can to avoid injuries,no shame in that it's common sense
When I was a young bride, back in the 60s, words like "bunions", "arthritis" and "wrinkles", were not only absent from my vocabulary, but they weren't going to happen to me! Ever! I can't remember ever hearing about Alzheimer's, and can only remember an aunt being described as "a bit doolally", which was always said with a kindly smile, by the other older relatives.
Phrases such as "where have I put my glasses", "have I taken all my tablets today", "root canal treatment", "my leg/arm/whatever is killing me" and "if only I could find a pair of comfy shoes today when I go shopping", were all foreign to me.
My diary wasn't filled with exciting things like hospital appointments, or those for the GP, dentist or optician. How times change! My sympathies are with you, as a twisted knee, on top of arthritis, plus caring for a hubby with AD, make for one damned heavy load to carry. xxxxx
Aw, Bemused! I've just caught up with this thread. You poor love - you are having a time of it! I'm just shocked at the fact that carers there don't have to be trained? Seriously??!! Care Workers, including those working in home care, here have to have this course done: http://www.healthcaretrainingsolutions.ie/pages/coursesfetac-healthcare-support.php I have to admit, it's several years now since I completed it, and I did an extra course in Dementia Care too. And anyone working with vulnurable people - either children or elderly, or ill people - must have police vetting. And that is done by each employer - so if you move jobs, the new employer has to get you vetted again.
Of course - that doesn't mean there aren't bad carers here! Because all the qualifications in the world won't give you the most important qualification - the empathy you need to do the job well, and to see the person within the illness or disability, and also to realise that you are not just there to care for the ill/disabled person, but to care for the carer too!
Really hope things improve for you soon. xx
Care Workers, including those working in home care, here have to have this course done: http://www.healthcaretrainingsolutions.ie/pages/coursesfetac-healthcare-support.php I have to admit, it's several years now since I completed it, and I did an extra course in Dementia Care too. And anyone working with vulnurable people - either children or elderly, or ill people - must have police vetting. And that is done by each employer - so if you move jobs, the new employer has to get you vetted again.Of course - that doesn't mean there aren't bad carers here! Because all the qualifications in the world won't give you the most important qualification - the empathy you need to do the job well, and to see the person within the illness or disability, and also to realise that you are not just there to care for the ill/disabled person, but to care for the carer too!
Really hope things improve for you soon. xx
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Filthy blighters do it here, too. Always on the new pavement they built a few years ago; and down the street going to the train. You wonder how they keep their homes if they're that dirty outside.
Really sorry about your tumble, Bemused. That must have hurt
(((Chuggalug)))
(((Bemused))) that fall must have felt like the last straw at the time! The few inconsiderate dog owners do give everyone else a bad name
Oof. Me too
Went out and could hardly move! You got arthritis, or summink, Slugsta?Know what I found out? You know when you're sitting at a table. Perhaps you've just had dinner and are now sitting there yapping with a cuppa with your table mates? You stick your elbows on the table and interlace your fingers. Didja know you're putting a horrible strain on every single joint, doing that? Boy, ain't I paying for it now!
Oof. Me too
I damaged my back at work more than 30 years ago. Managed to limp along until 5 years ago when a sneeze exploded an intervertebral disc and have suffered from nerve pain in my left leg ever since. Today my back itself was very painful along with the sciatica - mum was very unsteady when we went out yesterday and I had to support her so I suspect that is the cause.
Thank heaven for pain killers!
Oh mate. Nerve pain. Ooooouch. I could cry for you. Had it in shoulder; both legs; right arm and other places you never knew you had nerves! When my spine started up and the shoulders went, I wanted to fall and land on the corner of a brick to have another pain to take my mind off the one I had. It was sooooooo BAAAAAD
That was years and years ago. Funnily enough, only heavy work eased it off. Can't do that now. Fink me left leg's gonna fall off after today Man, I still hurt and I didn't do much. (Cue stunned look...)Wish I could walk!
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha! Yeah. I get it. Love that, Es. You done made my night, as they say on stage
No, tell ya wot, I'm a bit scared, Es. Still haven't pulled meself together tonight. I should be back to normal by now, and I ain't. Still can't move without agony. Poor Bemused. Feel sorry for her, too, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello lady a. Carers are trained but IIT is the level of training that is the problem. They have to do an online course of some kind but when they start being actually sent out they are supposed to shadow for two weeks or as long as is necessary. The problem is they are being sent out to quite complex care situations such as my husband because they have a client somewhere else who is similar. Not helpful when as in the case of our recent troublemaker, they just don't have a clue. They are all police checked.
My problem is not with the carers its with management.
They treat self funding clients the same as their staff. If you complain you get hours cut. If somebody goes off sick you don't get a replacement etc. The biggest problem is that I can't get another agency to take us on.
But we manage, I have as much as possible to do the heavy lifting work but I worry , all the time,what if something happens to me?
My problem is not with the carers its with management.
They treat self funding clients the same as their staff. If you complain you get hours cut. If somebody goes off sick you don't get a replacement etc. The biggest problem is that I can't get another agency to take us on.
But we manage, I have as much as possible to do the heavy lifting work but I worry , all the time,what if something happens to me?
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