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hopless500

hopless500

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Back on the pina colada. Think the last of the bottle of rum will not live to see another day.
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Katherine

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fossyant said:
MIL has just been carted off to hospital. She was fine yesterday when I was round, but has had increasingly bad pain in her paralysed leg (from stroke) and isn't mobile, so for safety, she has been wheeled. in. Bloody good job I got the web cam sorted out, as it wasn't the router. Only just got it back installed yesterday after a week off line - the camera stopped connecting (camera fault). All replaced under warranty, but I've been able to check recordings and she was fine until this morning and has gone down hill since late morning. Sister in law was round after the carers called the docs and herself.

Handy bits of kit as you can see what's going on, as my MIL says very little now, just deliberately awkward - nods, shakes head, points and shouts words. She can hold a conversation but won't.

At least they will be able to check her out. Effects of very badly controlled type 2 and heart failure we reccon. She tells everyone she isn't diabetic, nor has had heart attacks. She can't get away with the strokes, but as soon as she is on an ECG, they say, yes you have....

It doesn't help that she has no pain tolerance and is always crying. It's hard for everyone to get through to her.
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Sounds exhausting for everyone. Hope there will be some temporary relief while she is in hospital.
 
fossyant

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
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South Manchester
Sipping wine. Glad it's raining again as the grass was weeded and feeded, so getting rain is a key for it not to scorch the grass. With being 'a man of leisure' or some such I've been able to potter about the garden bit by bit because I have bugger all else to do. Really enjoying how the garden has bloomed, and my grass (lawn before you start). My kids are older and don't set foot on it now (oh yess yess yess), rather than hammering it. I will have a super lawn eventually..

Can't see it lasting when I get back to work though. We will see.
 
deptfordmarmoset

deptfordmarmoset

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Armonmy Way
fossyant said:
MIL has just been carted off to hospital. She was fine yesterday when I was round, but has had increasingly bad pain in her paralysed leg (from stroke) and isn't mobile, so for safety, she has been wheeled. in. Bloody good job I got the web cam sorted out, as it wasn't the router. Only just got it back installed yesterday after a week off line - the camera stopped connecting (camera fault). All replaced under warranty, but I've been able to check recordings and she was fine until this morning and has gone down hill since late morning. Sister in law was round after the carers called the docs and herself.

Handy bits of kit as you can see what's going on, as my MIL says very little now, just deliberately awkward - nods, shakes head, points and shouts words. She can hold a conversation but won't.

At least they will be able to check her out. Effects of very badly controlled type 2 and heart failure we reccon. She tells everyone she isn't diabetic, nor has had heart attacks. She can't get away with the strokes, but as soon as she is on an ECG, they say, yes you have....

It doesn't help that she has no pain tolerance and is always crying. It's hard for everyone to get through to her.
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I hope they can get the pain under control and bon courage for you.
 
deptfordmarmoset

deptfordmarmoset

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Armonmy Way
Katherine said:
The rain is almost deafening at the moment. What do you call rain coming down in stair rods when we don't have stair rods any more?
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Comme la vache qui pisse.
Or
Il pleut des cordes. (Probably politer, all in all.)
 
fossyant

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
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South Manchester
Katherine said:
Sounds exhausting for everyone. Hope there will be some temporary relief while she is in hospital.
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It's exhausting normally, as she panics over the bloody SKY TV. None of us have it, but the amounts of times I've had to go round and try and fix it. Bugger all goes wrong in our house, but she is always having telephone issues and stuff. The electrics are 'iffy' as my late FIL used to plug everything into extension leads (despite being in the electrical industry).. It's a wiring night mare....

I unplugged 3 extension leads in my late FIL's computer room, to get to just two plugs we needed for the broadband. It's that bad. As an 'expert' he didn't half bodge stuff. As a none expert I would have done it properly myself. PS that meant I was on all fours finding plugs with my broken back....

My MIL usually phones my wife or the eldest sister. Unfortunately, it's been the eldest sister since my back was broken, as we also have a Type 1 diabetic son that needs an eye on.

If it's not kids you are bringing up, it's your old parents you are running after.

It's nothing unusual... most of us are running round like this...:wacko:
 
fossyant

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
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South Manchester
All I an say, if you have an aged relative, get a web cam. I can recommend the FLIR cameras. £150 for piece of mind. They mainly work via web phone apps, so it alerts you on movement in a specified area. Stores 2 days of video for free. We check in on her from where ever we are on the phone.

We bought it because of my nephew steeling money last year. Lets say he's never been round since, and no money has gone, and no bloody apology...
 
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