There I am getting on minding my own business last week, when I receive two phone calls. It must have been because I'd phoned the Community Nurse to enquire about what would happen should I become very ill or break a leg. I'd had a bad cold about a month earlier, which got me thinking along those lines.
I was advised I might try contacting Carers' Support. They'd provide someone to sit with my wife, while I made my way to the GP. So nothing's changed, I drew her a picture: "So I get someone in while I hop along on my good leg to the surgery!" I then asked about the advert about the flu Jab: "I know that the over 65's are entitled to it, what about my wife and I, we're over 70 and with me over 76 with one foot in the grave, suppose it'd be a waste of time and money?" She'd never met us, promised to get around to us. She made it two weeks later with a jab for my wife, she'd call back with my jab another time!
The second call was from a CPN asking if it would be OK for her and another call
and speak to me. Last week her, and I think a woman from SS, arrived at the door:
"Hello I'm your CPN and this is Cath, do you remember me?" "NO, if we met it will have been years ago." "Yes it was".
They had come to arrange a contingency plan in the event of my becoming ill/injured.
My question,where have these people been for the past four years and eight months, since I removed my wife from a NH? You may recall from earlier posts, she was bedridden with very bad pressure sores, under six stone, oral thrush, no speech and no movement. Today she's still doing very well, sleeps a lot, is as stiff as a board, must be nearing 9 stone, which is a bit of a worry. I'm still taking her shopping twice a week and it feels as though she's heavier. I'm only 10st 4lbs but I eat lots of chocolate for enegery.
To day I received 9 double pages with a longwinded title, most Section 2: Care Domains. Some are filled in and others I'm expected to fill in.
It is easy to see, these people have never spent a day, never mind a week or years caring for a loved one. Once again I'm referred to as a 'one off'', to that I think it would be nice to meet a one off CPN.
Until these people arrived on the seen, my wife and I have not seen a Doctor since early Feb, when she had to be rushed to A&E after a seizure. It is just over two years since we had a check-up.
Her GP's named on the form we last saw about four years ago!
The covering letter states"This is being applied for as a contingency plan in the rare event that you may become incapacitated eg via illness/injury".
I busted my ribs about a year back and just carried on with pain killers.
I'm asked to fill in the box on page 12, 'individual's assessment of their care needs' and return it in the SAE so as they can complete the form.
What happened to common sense? These remind me of fellows walking around a graveyard with a coffin an hour after been first seen, they'd lost the plot!
I'm wondering if anyone will or can tell me what this is all about?
Still going it alone. Padraig
I was advised I might try contacting Carers' Support. They'd provide someone to sit with my wife, while I made my way to the GP. So nothing's changed, I drew her a picture: "So I get someone in while I hop along on my good leg to the surgery!" I then asked about the advert about the flu Jab: "I know that the over 65's are entitled to it, what about my wife and I, we're over 70 and with me over 76 with one foot in the grave, suppose it'd be a waste of time and money?" She'd never met us, promised to get around to us. She made it two weeks later with a jab for my wife, she'd call back with my jab another time!
The second call was from a CPN asking if it would be OK for her and another call
and speak to me. Last week her, and I think a woman from SS, arrived at the door:
"Hello I'm your CPN and this is Cath, do you remember me?" "NO, if we met it will have been years ago." "Yes it was".
They had come to arrange a contingency plan in the event of my becoming ill/injured.
My question,where have these people been for the past four years and eight months, since I removed my wife from a NH? You may recall from earlier posts, she was bedridden with very bad pressure sores, under six stone, oral thrush, no speech and no movement. Today she's still doing very well, sleeps a lot, is as stiff as a board, must be nearing 9 stone, which is a bit of a worry. I'm still taking her shopping twice a week and it feels as though she's heavier. I'm only 10st 4lbs but I eat lots of chocolate for enegery.
To day I received 9 double pages with a longwinded title, most Section 2: Care Domains. Some are filled in and others I'm expected to fill in.
It is easy to see, these people have never spent a day, never mind a week or years caring for a loved one. Once again I'm referred to as a 'one off'', to that I think it would be nice to meet a one off CPN.
Until these people arrived on the seen, my wife and I have not seen a Doctor since early Feb, when she had to be rushed to A&E after a seizure. It is just over two years since we had a check-up.
Her GP's named on the form we last saw about four years ago!
The covering letter states"This is being applied for as a contingency plan in the rare event that you may become incapacitated eg via illness/injury".
I busted my ribs about a year back and just carried on with pain killers.
I'm asked to fill in the box on page 12, 'individual's assessment of their care needs' and return it in the SAE so as they can complete the form.
What happened to common sense? These remind me of fellows walking around a graveyard with a coffin an hour after been first seen, they'd lost the plot!
I'm wondering if anyone will or can tell me what this is all about?
Still going it alone. Padraig