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Annb said:
I heard yesterday that my SIL in Ayrshire has been taken to Crosshouse Hospital after a fall. It's a sad tale of woe, poor soul. She lives alone - her son and daughters living not too far away, but not with her but she does have carers coming in 2 times a day because she's unable to walk at all, so can't really look after herself. They have a very odd system there which, in between times, she has to call for a carer to come in and take her to the toilet, whenever she needs it. I can't see how that is ever going to be successful since it takes about half an hour at least for that carer to reach her. Still, that's the system they use.

Yesterday morning she called this carer. The carer came but as she was helped out of the bed, her wonky knee gave way and she fell. The carers are told that if a person falls, they are not to try to catch them (I see the point of that, but I couldn't just let someone fall). Trouble was, her bedroom is very small in a tiny council flat and she fell between the bed and the wall and the carer couldn't help her to her feet on her own - that would have involved lifting, which is not allowed. The carer then had to call for assistance from a male carer who was several miles away, to bring a kind of inflating lift to get her up. It took another 3/4 hour for him to get there only to find that the device needed recharging so they plugged it in and had to wait another half hour or so for it to charge sufficiently to work.

All this time, poor Alice was stuck with her weight on her bad knee, beside the bed. Eventually they got her up. By this time two of her daughters and a granddaughter had arrived and it was clear that Alice needed an ambulance. However, the ambulance service told them that it wasn't an emergency so calling 999 was not the right service to use. They were told to phone another number, which didn't answer, or a doctor. No doctor was available either. One of her daughters and her granddaughter decided to go to the surgery - just down the road - and insist on seeing a GP. That triggered some action and the GP called an ambulance for them. The ambulance eventually came, by which time she had been waiting in agony for 4 hours.

She was taken to Crosshouse Hospital, just a few miles away, but had to stay in the ambulance for 3 hours while space was found in the corridor of A&E to take her in. There she was seen by a nurse and then a consultant but was still there, on the trolley, in A&E last night. There were no beds available for her or for the several others in the same situation. The consultant was reassuring and said the rehab department would have her walking again in no time - obviously not realising that she has been unable to walk for more than 2 years because both of her knee replacements have failed and she has been told that there is no more help for that. Actually at her age and condition, she probably wouldn't survive more surgery even if it were to be offered.

She has realised herself that she really should be in a care home now but spaces there are few and far between - waiting for someone to die to free up a bed. However, the hospital, even if they find her a bed, won't let her stay there until a space is found and will want to send her home again. How the social work department will cope with that, I can't think, short of resources as they are.

I'm sure this situation is not unique but it seems so sad for anyone to have to face this in their declining years.
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All I can do is send you hugs, and Alice herself obviously @Annb
She is in my thoughts that somehow a solution can be found however impossible that seems x
 
Fbg 6.9

The weather is horrendously foul here with terrible rain and high winds. And it is dark as night and it's only nearly 2pm.

There is a prossession of stray cats coming into the bungalow for shelter and food. It must be horrible for them all out there. At this very minute is a massive ginger cat eating, I have never seen him before. I have no idea how he got the information that there was a free eatery here in my bungalow. For a second I thought it was a young fox but then his head turned to the side and I realized it was a large cat.


Nighttime wildlife video
Badger Thor this night - no Willow - Cat Jade was on the swing

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD4YyZNtO4G/?igsh=YXBoMDMyaTVkbG15


And same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdhCVpqP/


Creative is partly a painting, and partly some work on it in procreate. So the background was a painting and I put a Christmas tree on it with Procreate...

It is so dull and dark and horrendous outside that I don't feel like doing anything.

I am just going to do some lunch. Turn the radiator up, and get back in my chair bed with my lunch. And do a bit of video editing for the next wildlife videos. I am bit excited because I think I spotted a fox in the undergrowth. I was skimming through the clips and it wasn't until I had got to the end of the series I suddenly thought hang on I am sure I saw a fox back there... I thought it was a cat initially because it was eating Jade's breakfast...but I couldn't find him again...

Have a good day

Take care

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Annb said:
I heard yesterday that my SIL in Ayrshire has been taken to Crosshouse Hospital after a fall. It's a sad tale of woe, poor soul. She lives alone - her son and daughters living not too far away, but not with her but she does have carers coming in 2 times a day because she's unable to walk at all, so can't really look after herself. They have a very odd system there which, in between times, she has to call for a carer to come in and take her to the toilet, whenever she needs it. I can't see how that is ever going to be successful since it takes about half an hour at least for that carer to reach her. Still, that's the system they use.

Yesterday morning she called this carer. The carer came but as she was helped out of the bed, her wonky knee gave way and she fell. The carers are told that if a person falls, they are not to try to catch them (I see the point of that, but I couldn't just let someone fall). Trouble was, her bedroom is very small in a tiny council flat and she fell between the bed and the wall and the carer couldn't help her to her feet on her own - that would have involved lifting, which is not allowed. The carer then had to call for assistance from a male carer who was several miles away, to bring a kind of inflating lift to get her up. It took another 3/4 hour for him to get there only to find that the device needed recharging so they plugged it in and had to wait another half hour or so for it to charge sufficiently to work.

All this time, poor Alice was stuck with her weight on her bad knee, beside the bed. Eventually they got her up. By this time two of her daughters and a granddaughter had arrived and it was clear that Alice needed an ambulance. However, the ambulance service told them that it wasn't an emergency so calling 999 was not the right service to use. They were told to phone another number, which didn't answer, or a doctor. No doctor was available either. One of her daughters and her granddaughter decided to go to the surgery - just down the road - and insist on seeing a GP. That triggered some action and the GP called an ambulance for them. The ambulance eventually came, by which time she had been waiting in agony for 4 hours.

She was taken to Crosshouse Hospital, just a few miles away, but had to stay in the ambulance for 3 hours while space was found in the corridor of A&E to take her in. There she was seen by a nurse and then a consultant but was still there, on the trolley, in A&E last night. There were no beds available for her or for the several others in the same situation. The consultant was reassuring and said the rehab department would have her walking again in no time - obviously not realising that she has been unable to walk for more than 2 years because both of her knee replacements have failed and she has been told that there is no more help for that. Actually at her age and condition, she probably wouldn't survive more surgery even if it were to be offered.

She has realised herself that she really should be in a care home now but spaces there are few and far between - waiting for someone to die to free up a bed. However, the hospital, even if they find her a bed, won't let her stay there until a space is found and will want to send her home again. How the social work department will cope with that, I can't think, short of resources as they are.

I'm sure this situation is not unique but it seems so sad for anyone to have to face this in their declining years.
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That is so horrible for Alice @Annb. I cannot see how they can justify sending her home when she clearly cannot cope on her own.
 
@Annb how your SIL's plight has been handled is heartbreaking and prompts the question how the hell did we get here and how long will we tolerate this? @gennepher @Lamont D @Krystyna23040 hugs for the premonitions. @gennepher all the major supermarkets are virtually giving away vegetables but those who can't access them pay through the nose. @Lamont D the AI which decides how best to pay for shopping plumped for account C of the bank of Ant and Dec. It explained that the interest earned by paying from account C could automatically trigger the money not spent to be transferred to account Z which pays higher interest. However shop A isn't in scheme Z2 so we had to enter the 9 digit code to verify how to pay. Simples really. @dunelm thank you for the art and the veterans breakfast turned into a wonderful day. I'm intrigued about TGIB's Gargantuan chums, hopefully not a weightist comment. The fish painting story was very funny. @Krystyna23040 I had to give a funny for not only having a packing list in the first place but then having to make changes - simply brilliant. Ho, ho, ho to y'all.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

The weather is horrendously foul here with terrible rain and high winds. And it is dark as night and it's only nearly 2pm.

There is a prossession of stray cats coming into the bungalow for shelter and food. It must be horrible for them all out there. At this very minute is a massive ginger cat eating, I have never seen him before. I have no idea how he got the information that there was a free eatery here in my bungalow. For a second I thought it was a young fox but then his head turned to the side and I realized it was a large cat.


Nighttime wildlife video
Badger Thor this night - no Willow - Cat Jade was on the swing

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD4YyZNtO4G/?igsh=YXBoMDMyaTVkbG15


And same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdhCVpqP/


Creative is partly a painting, and partly some work on it in procreate. So the background was a painting and I put a Christmas tree on it with Procreate...

It is so dull and dark and horrendous outside that I don't feel like doing anything.

I am just going to do some lunch. Turn the radiator up, and get back in my chair bed with my lunch. And do a bit of video editing for the next wildlife videos. I am bit excited because I think I spotted a fox in the undergrowth. I was skimming through the clips and it wasn't until I had got to the end of the series I suddenly thought hang on I am sure I saw a fox back there... I thought it was a cat initially because it was eating Jade's breakfast...but I couldn't find him again...

Have a good day

Take care

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@gennepher thank you for sharing the last two videos and creatives. The weather sounds horibble so relax in that chair stay warm and edit those videos. We had the North Pole Experience, watched Chariots of fire and soon JKP will force me to watch Spurs lose about 6 - 0. Its a hard enough life.
 
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Annb said:
I heard yesterday that my SIL in Ayrshire has been taken to Crosshouse Hospital after a fall. It's a sad tale of woe, poor soul. She lives alone - her son and daughters living not too far away, but not with her but she does have carers coming in 2 times a day because she's unable to walk at all, so can't really look after herself. They have a very odd system there which, in between times, she has to call for a carer to come in and take her to the toilet, whenever she needs it. I can't see how that is ever going to be successful since it takes about half an hour at least for that carer to reach her. Still, that's the system they use.

Yesterday morning she called this carer. The carer came but as she was helped out of the bed, her wonky knee gave way and she fell. The carers are told that if a person falls, they are not to try to catch them (I see the point of that, but I couldn't just let someone fall). Trouble was, her bedroom is very small in a tiny council flat and she fell between the bed and the wall and the carer couldn't help her to her feet on her own - that would have involved lifting, which is not allowed. The carer then had to call for assistance from a male carer who was several miles away, to bring a kind of inflating lift to get her up. It took another 3/4 hour for him to get there only to find that the device needed recharging so they plugged it in and had to wait another half hour or so for it to charge sufficiently to work.

All this time, poor Alice was stuck with her weight on her bad knee, beside the bed. Eventually they got her up. By this time two of her daughters and a granddaughter had arrived and it was clear that Alice needed an ambulance. However, the ambulance service told them that it wasn't an emergency so calling 999 was not the right service to use. They were told to phone another number, which didn't answer, or a doctor. No doctor was available either. One of her daughters and her granddaughter decided to go to the surgery - just down the road - and insist on seeing a GP. That triggered some action and the GP called an ambulance for them. The ambulance eventually came, by which time she had been waiting in agony for 4 hours.

She was taken to Crosshouse Hospital, just a few miles away, but had to stay in the ambulance for 3 hours while space was found in the corridor of A&E to take her in. There she was seen by a nurse and then a consultant but was still there, on the trolley, in A&E last night. There were no beds available for her or for the several others in the same situation. The consultant was reassuring and said the rehab department would have her walking again in no time - obviously not realising that she has been unable to walk for more than 2 years because both of her knee replacements have failed and she has been told that there is no more help for that. Actually at her age and condition, she probably wouldn't survive more surgery even if it were to be offered.

She has realised herself that she really should be in a care home now but spaces there are few and far between - waiting for someone to die to free up a bed. However, the hospital, even if they find her a bed, won't let her stay there until a space is found and will want to send her home again. How the social work department will cope with that, I can't think, short of resources as they are.

I'm sure this situation is not unique but it seems so sad for anyone to have to face this in their declining years.
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It’s a crazy system and even crazier to have the word ‘health’ included in the name of it.
 
ianpspurs said:
@Annb how your SIL's plight has been handled is heartbreaking and prompts the question how the hell did we get here and how long will we tolerate this? @gennepher @Lamont D @Krystyna23040 hugs for the premonitions. @gennepher all the major supermarkets are virtually giving away vegetables but those who can't access them pay through the nose. @Lamont D the AI which decides how best to pay for shopping plumped for account C of the bank of Ant and Dec. It explained that the interest earned by paying from account C could automatically trigger the money not spent to be transferred to account Z which pays higher interest. However shop A isn't in scheme Z2 so we had to enter the 9 digit code to verify how to pay. Simples really. @dunelm thank you for the art and the veterans breakfast turned into a wonderful day. I'm intrigued about TGIB's Gargantuan chums, hopefully not a weightist comment. The fish painting story was very funny. @Krystyna23040 I had to give a funny for not only having a packing list in the first place but then having to make changes - simply brilliant. Ho, ho, ho to y'all.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. The Gargantuan Chums came from the music of Vivian Stanshall and were John Entwhislte and Keith Moon backing on their version of Suspicion (Lyrics). I just like the phrase.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

The weather is horrendously foul here with terrible rain and high winds. And it is dark as night and it's only nearly 2pm.

There is a prossession of stray cats coming into the bungalow for shelter and food. It must be horrible for them all out there. At this very minute is a massive ginger cat eating, I have never seen him before. I have no idea how he got the information that there was a free eatery here in my bungalow. For a second I thought it was a young fox but then his head turned to the side and I realized it was a large cat.


Nighttime wildlife video
Badger Thor this night - no Willow - Cat Jade was on the swing

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD4YyZNtO4G/?igsh=YXBoMDMyaTVkbG15


And same vid on TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdhCVpqP/


Creative is partly a painting, and partly some work on it in procreate. So the background was a painting and I put a Christmas tree on it with Procreate...

It is so dull and dark and horrendous outside that I don't feel like doing anything.

I am just going to do some lunch. Turn the radiator up, and get back in my chair bed with my lunch. And do a bit of video editing for the next wildlife videos. I am bit excited because I think I spotted a fox in the undergrowth. I was skimming through the clips and it wasn't until I had got to the end of the series I suddenly thought hang on I am sure I saw a fox back there... I thought it was a cat initially because it was eating Jade's breakfast...but I couldn't find him again...

Have a good day

Take care

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Wonderful and festive creation
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Have you been talking to Mr K @ianpspurs . He can't understand why anyone would need a packing list either. :)
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A packing list!
Wow!
As I used to stay overnight frequently in my last job.
My idea of a bag for travel is besides my club work clothes were, a change of underwear (2) a change of workwear and another change in case of adverse weather conditions.
A pair of sliders, toilet bag and anything medical I needed.
All in my club sports bag. A duffel bag for food.
What else would you need?

For a holiday......
Not much else, except sack the work clothes and replace with casuals and appropriate to the climate.
It only takes five minutes to wash something!

Mrs L used the space in my travel case, for her needs (too much as always)
 
I can't understand why this weather we are having isn't a named storm, it says it is a yellow warming but the wind and frequent rain is really horrendous.
Had to switch chrimbo lights off and secure them, so they won't blow away or smash.
Foliage as usual, where does it come from?
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Have you been talking to Mr K @ianpspurs . He can't understand why anyone would need a packing list either. :)
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One list is quite amusing but as of now you are at least on version two, We should run a sweepstake on what version you will be on by the time you actually leave. Help us out a little by telling us which day that will be and if you are beyond version two by now which I strongly suspect. i say it will be in single figures .... even if only just :playful:
 
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Lamont D said:
A packing list!
Wow!
As I used to stay overnight frequently in my last job.
My idea of a bag for travel is besides my club work clothes were, a change of underwear (2) a change of workwear and another change in case of adverse weather conditions.
A pair of sliders, toilet bag and anything medical I needed.
All in my club sports bag. A duffel bag for food.
What else would you need?

For a holiday......
Not much else, except sack the work clothes and replace with casuals and appropriate to the climate.
It only takes five minutes to wash something!

Mrs L used the space in my travel case, for her needs (too much as always)
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That sounds exactly like Mr K's packing @Lamont D
 
ianpspurs said:
One list is quite amusing but as of now you are at least on version two, We should run a sweepstake on what version you will be on by the time you actually leave. Help us out a little by telling us which day that will be and if you are beyond version two by now which I strongly suspect. i say it will be in single figures .... even if only just :playful:
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Am on version 3 at the moment.
 
ianpspurs said:
@gennepher thank you for sharing the last two videos and creatives. The weather sounds horibble so relax in that chair stay warm and edit those videos. We had the North Pole Experience, watched Chariots of fire and soon JKP will force me to watch Spurs lose about 6 - 0. Its a hard enough life.
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Thank you, @ianpspurs
Commiserations on the Spurs loss.
It is an incredibly hard life for you....
 
When Tom used to go away to sea for 9-12 months at a time, he would always leave his packing until the last minute - the last couple of hours actually. Never a list, never a panic and never anything forgotten. Of course, I would have his uniforms from the cleaners, his whites washed and pressed and everything else washed, pressed and ready to go. 2 hours before the taxi was booked, out would come the cases and everything stashed in them neatly and methodically. I would be panicking at that point but he wouldn't. Practice makes perfect, I suppose.
 
Annb said:
When Tom used to go away to sea for 9-12 months at a time, he would always leave his packing until the last minute - the last couple of hours actually. Never a list, never a panic and never anything forgotten. Of course, I would have his uniforms from the cleaners, his whites washed and pressed and everything else washed, pressed and ready to go. 2 hours before the taxi was booked, out would come the cases and everything stashed in them neatly and methodically. I would be panicking at that point but he wouldn't. Practice makes perfect, I suppose.
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Yes, it does.
why take something you won't use?
And, all my clothes were usually iron free.
modern material.
And coming back, bag into kitchen, contents into washing machine, washed, dried, and ready for use the next day. Cos I was usually back in work after a day off.
So easy and no lists...
 
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