Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

My school can't close - too many boarders from too far away. We've got a few staff out on strike, but the school is setting up childcare for school age children of staff so that people don't have to be off work if their kids' school closes. They've done the same thing in the past for snow closures. The kind person from HR has agreed my kids can go to the childcare tomorrow even though I don't work on Wednesdays, because otherwise I was going to have to cancel going to see my parents tomorrow.

Mum is hanging on in there, but getting weaker and sleepier every day. After a few days of drinking with a straw she now can't manage that again, but they are giving her the nutrition drinks with the pipette that she has her meds with.

That's an excellent childcare solution. Good on the school.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Lung? Kidney?

A bit lower...

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Just debating whether its worth putting the bins out tonight?

Double whammy because our council have decided that the street lights are switched off between midnight and 6am, so a pavement littered with random wheelie bins and paper collection boxes is a real hazard.

Good question. When I left work earlier I had no idea who was and wasn't going out on strike tomorrow. Honestly, I think some libraries will open, but I have no idea how many. AIUI (I'm not a union member), the union has told members not to say to the employer whether or not they are going out so that the organisation cannot make contingency plans. Thankfully my binmen came today.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Mum is hanging on in there, but getting weaker and sleepier every day. After a few days of drinking with a straw she now can't manage that again, but they are giving her the nutrition drinks with the pipette that she has her meds with.

My old had a dry mouth, side effect of meds ... and at the stage when drinking was almost impossible they had sponges http://www.medisave.co.uk/foam-oral-mouth-swabs-per-pack-of-5-p-6894.html for at least wiping round and keeping the mouth moist.



My old had fully intravenous drugs, delivered by a "syringe driver" which was in a small shoulder bag... although when you're barely able to move you can really get in an unfathomable tangle with the bag and the intravenous tube. The meds (morphine I think) were checked/adjusted every 1.5 hours.

Pobby

Strikes!!!! Old Thatch would be doing her head in if she was in power. In her tank, beating the filthy strikers with her umbrella. Getting the old bill earning loads of extra cash wading into the protesters and destroying whole communities as punishment. Can`t see our Dave up to the job. I very much remember the miners strike and am proud that a played a benefit gig on their behalf. Destroy a mining community and what is left? Nowt. Even now you can see the social results of what happened some 25 years later.

I have less support for those going out on strike right now if they are moaning about cuts to their wonderful pensions, or lack of pay rises. Get real. However those that are worried about being kicked out of their jobs, well maybe that is a different affair.

Once again I am about to be contacted by ATOS ( don`t you just love them ). Possibly another assessment. 40 years of graft and the beggers seem to have it in for me. The bloke who, when I don`t spot his car and answer the door, is a Jehovas Witness. Says he can`t take the stress of working so has been on benefits for 11 years. Doesn`t add up. He can bang doors and do his thing yet can`t work.

I know someone who has all the benefits for being sick, yet walks into the pub with his builders clothes on after a hard day of grafting. Another who has come into a large sum of money yet still claims all that goes with being an unemployed single Mum. Not declared the legacy. I won`t shop them as they are distant relatives but my guess is if they are not careful someone else will.

Funny old game ain`t it.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

My old had a dry mouth, side effect of meds ... and at the stage when drinking was almost impossible they had sponges http://www.medisave.co.uk/foam-oral-mouth-swabs-per-pack-of-5-p-6894.html for at least wiping round and keeping the mouth moist.



My old had fully intravenous drugs, delivered by a "syringe driver" which was in a small shoulder bag... although when you're barely able to move you can really get in an unfathomable tangle with the bag and the intravenous tube. The meds (morphine I think) were checked/adjusted every 1.5 hours.

Yes, my mum has those sponges too - hers are pink. She doesn't need any IV meds. She's not in pain so doesn't need morphine. They've discontinued her madopar (for Parkinson's) and warfarin (blood thinner) now, so she just has galantamine (aka reminyl) for the dementia. She used to have it in tablets or capsules or similar, but now she can't swallow very well she has it in liquid form, with a dosing pipette.

In other news, I have finished writing my reports! :j:beer::A

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes, my mum has those sponges too - hers are pink. She doesn't need any IV meds. She's not in pain so doesn't need morphine. They've discontinued her madopar (for Parkinson's) and warfarin (blood thinner) now, so she just has galantamine (aka reminyl) for the dementia. She used to have it in tablets or capsules or similar, but now she can't swallow very well she has it in liquid form, with a dosing pipette.

Yeah, my old's were pink wedges, I just used the first image I could find

My old was in constant pain, even before the diagnosis probably ... had other issues before the big C loomed which were painful.

It's all very sad isn't it ... times like these.

Thinking of you daily!

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

My old had a dry mouth, side effect of meds ... and at the stage when drinking was almost impossible they had sponges http://www.medisave.co.uk/foam-oral-mouth-swabs-per-pack-of-5-p-6894.html for at least wiping round and keeping the mouth moist.

My old had fully intravenous drugs, delivered by a "syringe driver" which was in a small shoulder bag... although when you're barely able to move you can really get in an unfathomable tangle with the bag and the intravenous tube. The meds (morphine I think) were checked/adjusted every 1.5 hours.

When DD had her surgery many years ago we used the sponge "lollipops" to keep her mouth moistened. The morphine was delivered by a syringe driver but the worst bit was the searching for the vein to put it in. I don't envy the nurses(s) whose job that was - i could barely bring myself to watch.

Schools/colleges when they're at their best can be well-chilled about staff looking after kids or other dependants. I spent very many years at my previous place and maybe had two days off sick. Then when DD was ill and I had to go to stay in the hospital with her, everybody rallied round and looked after my workload. Although I thanked them never a word was said. More power to them! All workplaces should aim for this.

My thoughts are with everyone whose relatives are sick and I hope this government steels itself to look after them and us when we’re in that situation.

misskool

LydiaJ wrote: »

Mum is hanging on in there, but getting weaker and sleepier every day. After a few days of drinking with a straw she now can't manage that again, but they are giving her the nutrition drinks with the pipette that she has her meds with.

I must have missed this in a previous conversation. My best wishes and hope for the best.

BBC breakfast trying to compare public v private sector pension.

Generali

The super system here works well. Every employee, state or private, has 9% in addition to their salary put into a pension scheme. Employers can put in more if they decide to as can employees. You invest it as you see fit and at the end you have a lump sum that you can do with as you will.

Once/if that has gone you live off the 'age pension'. If you have any left when you die it goes to your heirs.

Most public sector employers put in extra. Most private sector ones do not.

For the legacy costs of the previous UK-style unfunded scheme for State employees and the costs of the age pension, a fund called the Future Fund has been set up. The idea is that will end up with enough in investments to generate cash to pay the legacy costs of old and continuing promises.

It's all jolly sensible if you ask me. If you want to retire young you stuff extra cash into your Super. If you want to have a better lifestyle either before or in retirement then you work longer. There are tax benefits for working past the retirement age: both my Aussie in-Laws work part time despite being well past retirement age and not in the best health. I reckon that they keep healthier working than if they stopped.