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Mum has been kept in overnight, not sure whats going to happen next.
Mum has grazed cut hands a cut and graze on her arm, slight grazes on her knees and has scuffed the skin off her nose down most of front of it and a graze on her forehead, they're superficial wounds but didn't look nice and she said they hurt especially her nose. She's scraped her glasses and before I left her a bruise was coming out on her nose where glasses had been. They took her bloods and urine sample, urine was fine but her blood showed infection markers slightly raised which could indicate an infection. Her ecg and bp were fine but because of her not knowing what happened, her confusion and history with alzheimers they didn't think she was safe to go home and were going to admit her to AMU tonight. She had to have a covid test which she didn't like, can't say I blame her it looked awful. Mum said she didn't want to stay in and was bit upset, I kept saying they just want to check if you have any infections cos nobody saw what happened and if you haven't they'll let you out. Its nearly morning now anyway. They said I couldn't go with her to ward so once they came with chair I had to say bye there. She didn't want to go in chair was a bit scared of it but I told her it was long way to walk through hospital so that would save her legs which were tired as we'd walked long way round hospital already. She looked like a scared child sat in the wheelchair being wheeled off it was awful. I don't even know what happens next as they don't say much, we didn't even know she was going to be staying in till bout 25 to 1 and we'd been there since 9.
When I got to mums her house was locked up and her shoes gone and she was nowhere to be seen. I asked neighbour if seen her and called 999. I was giving them mums details and places she might go and they had just sent cars to set off to our old house I thought might go to, and her mums house, when I thought of telling them house we lived in till I was 15, just as I was telling her my sister text me with same idea, I was just telling hubby to go look when my mobile went, hubby answered as I was on mums landline to police. A woman who lived on that street we'd just thought of said she had my mum with her, she looked like she had falle,n she'd cuts on her hand and face and bumped her head and was really confused. I told police handler and she sent car there and ordered ambulance and hubby and I went over.
I'm not sure why mum had gone back to our childhood home as it's not the one she usually mentions, but I think she may have set off to the house she keeps remembering but when she went to the end of her street and set off up the road she would have seen an opening a bit further up and across the road that lead over a bit of recreation ground that was a short cut we used to use on our way home from junior school which is up the road from mums current house, so I think it looked familiar and she went that way. The people on the street said a car had dropped mum off and said they'd found her crying and looking lost and mum'd said she lived on that street. She told them she'd been to doctors and that she lived there but couldn't find house. It does look bit different as think was 1988 we left there. A woman had come out and got mum a chair and for some reason, don't know why but I'm glad she did, mum had taken her address book with her. The woman asked if she had any family and found out had daughter Andrea so they found my number in her book and rung me. Another woman on street thought she recognised mum from passing her on mums road while walking dog. There were quite a few people out on street round her and police had got there a minute before us. Mum wasn't sure what was going on bless her.
The police told us to take mum back to hers and they'd see us there. When we got back they'd cancelled ambulance but when saw her bit more and talked to us a bit they called it back, they were told it could be few hours as non emergency so they said it would be quicker for us to take her so after speaking with police for while we did. At first the police were going to just come check she was safe and that would be it but I was talking to one policeman who said his dad had dementia so he understood a bit. I told him bit bout how things have been this week and what SS have said so he said he would fill in a concern form for SS. He told me to make sure to tell SS that mum had been picked up by someone in a car and dropped off, that even though they were actually trying to help mum, that is another safety issue as mum got in a car with strangers. He said take mum to a&e make sure she is ok and they will also have record of mum being hurt. He said if mum every goes out again to call and not be afraid to bother them, they treat it as a high priority and the sooner they are out looking the better it is. He was very nice and understanding.
I'd asked mums neighbour if she had seen mum when we'd got to mums to find it locked and while we were reporting mum to police she had talked to her daughter who works at supermarket nearby that we used to walk to pre covid and her daughter had been looking round there in case mum had gone down that way, which was lovely of them. We let her know mum had been found and later she rang to say that people on street would probably be asking and talking bout it and she wanted to let me know she wouldn't say anything which was nice.The people who rang and sat with mum on our old street were really kind and the nurses and drs who have seen mum today have been good with mum and asked lots about her alzheimers and what happened. Although they didn't actually tell us very much while there and I'm now wondering what happens next. I asked nurse who was taking mum to ward if I could ring in morning to see how she is and what happening and the nurse said yes and told me to ask for AMU but they do move people about as beds come up so if she's moved they will be able to tell me where.
I kept worrying mum would go out alone and was dreading it happening and now she has and she's hurt herself and we're all lucky it wasn't worse, and now she's in hospital alone and scared and I don't know whats going to happen next.