The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

wondercollie

Sheila, I hope the feet feel better soon and the surgery wait list isn't too long.


Dementia girl grabbed my shoulder last night as I was putting her walker in front of her and I felt it through my back. So my shoulder is burning right now. It's the same shoulder that got punched a couple of years back. I did fill in the incident report but haven't gone to the doctors because mine is closed for the long weekend and I don't feel like hanging out in emerg for 8 hours. Hopefully all will be well by tomorrow.


Dolly Parton. One of my favs. "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap" One of my all time favourite quotations.

shegar

Lyn thanks thats excellent advise , glad you also see it the way I do.......Ive got a life but cant live it with pain , so if it will buy me health then here goes..... MRI Wednesday first.....xx

silvasava

Shegar - money spent on your health, eyes or teeth is always a good investment - they all have to last you a lifetime! Hope everything goes well for you. Just a thought,could you apply for an interest free credit card so you don't deplete your savings all at once? - don't know if there are any reccomendations from Martin. We used one for DH's hernia op a few years ago so he could get it done privately quickly.

Pooky

Shegar - After all you've had to cope with in the past few years I'm not surprised you want your feet sorting "sooner" rather than "later". Hope they MRI goes well.

What a beautiful day it is again (well it is here anyway). Had to do a SM shop this morning so drove via the beach for a nice blast of fresh sea breeze. Picked up a few YS bargains which have helped stock the freezer. DD's are both on school/college holidays now and respective BF's are too so there's always a couple of hungry rumbles coming from somewhere, I got some reduced pizzas so they can bung those in the oven when they get to the "faint from hunger cos we only ate 20 minutes ago" stage.

DD's and BF's are taking DH to the cinema this evening, I get an evening off! Yay - I've got work to do but it will be nice to do it listening to my music rather than a background of games consoles/thumping teen music/DH's strange music tastes

paidinchickens

shegar wrote: »

Hi all how are you..?, I will do a read back tomorrow if im less tired than now...
Been to see the podiatrist private consultant today to do with the plantar fasciitis, well yea ive got chronic heel pain and yes ive got to have an operation, ive had far too many cortisone injections , which after having too many they do more harm than good....:eek:
Ive been taking anti inflammatories which have given me a ulcer and dam heartburn badly.......Long story short I have to go back this Wednesday at 9 for a MRI scan which costs £672...:eek::eek:......Yea I know , but im in agony and ive had it 3 years and I have no quality of life........I have to look at it like this , my car is 8 years old, which gets me by , I dont smoke 20 fags aday @ £50 per week and I dont drink, never eat out , and I have a brick of a mobile phone , so my health as to come first ......Obviously I will not be able to go private for the ops cos I need 2 feet done ........So I will ask to go on NHS waiting list.......
But he said its definite ops cos nothing else is working.........Got these bad feet
because I wore a cheap pair of asda flat summer shoes 3 years ago........If only id have known.......
I hope your all doing ok and enjoying the good weather we are having ...Take care all Sheila...

I don't thing £672 is a lot of money to spend on yourself to have quality of life at all so stop giving yourself a hard time.

I have spent more on a cat who had test after test to be told he was just old and we have £500 to find for a school trip which is a luxury so in the balance of things it's a need and not a want.

Look after yourself and get better soon x

monnagran

Hi all,

Just about to tackle my wool stash and knitting stuff. I won't tell you what it's like, but it has to be sorted and packed and I need to gather my strength.

MOS: Gosh! That is an eyewatering accommodation cost. I know that is a very busy course and to have to find that amount of money in addition to coping with the work load is quite a burden to take on. Good Luck to your DD, I hope she makes shedloads of money when she qualifies.

Sheila: Go for it! You can't put a price on your health and it is the most important aspect if you want a good quality of life. I know people with awful health problems who somehow rise above it and cope brilliantly, and I am in awe of them. But if you have any sort of choice it would be madness not to take the opportunity.

nursemaggie: Thanks for the link. I'll certainly be taking a look.

Right. Off to clear a path to my wool cupboard. (Shudders)

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Possession

I'd certainly agree Sheila, don't feel bad about spending that money on yourself. It's nothing compared to quality of life. I hope you can get an op soon and see a big improvement.

fuddle

So much to catch up on. Have to be quick as need to get back to working (just home for cheese and pickle sandwich and get some cheese/garlic pizza base on the window sill so can make for meal tonight)

Monnagran well done that birdman! I really need a catch up with you but until then - are you ok and coping?

Lyn DH and were talking about going to Glasto next year but wouldn't take the children... if it's good enough for zebra!! VJ's my 2 will be 10 and 6 by then... appropriate for them? Loved the TV coverage and DP rocked!

Wondercollie and Mar you know I am in to dom care now don't ya? Well it's taken me up until recently to get my confidence and my voice. Originally I was going into dementia suffers houses and trying to go about my brief of giving said ladies personal care. I would be hit, scratch, verbally abused you name it. Each time reporting it and asking for help on how to avoid it because in my mind who the heck am I to go into someone's home and put them in a position where they feel angry/scared to react like that. So now I offer assistance, if it's declined, it is decline and I will not push. I feel it is their right. I think 'duty of care' and a patient/service user's right to choose are intermingled and it's those left with the pressure/burdon of 'we must get this brief fulfilled for fear of reprimand'. Ilife aint that clear cut and if I have justify why I haven't given a lady a full strip wash when it has been refused then I will bliddy justify it!

A few OS over the weekend:

Market for fruit and veg.

Car boot for a desk for DD's room - £3 and an ikea stool for £1 - they will be plasticote sprayed to match their room in the coming weeks.

DH harvested the first of the peapods - thoroughly enjoyed by all!

Trip to RSPB which cost all of £2 for parking. We stumbled across a nice little bay there too - free from tourists!

Mentioned my HM cheese/garlic pizza - to go with carbonara. Using spaghetti as have that in and frozen bacon bits are defrosting.

Blueberries are blackening finally

Pulled oven to bits to clean - that astonish oven paste is brilliant isn't it!

moments_of_sanity

monnagran wrote: »

Hi all,

Just about to tackle my wool stash and knitting stuff. I won't tell you what it's like, but it has to be sorted and packed and I need to gather my strength.

MOS: Gosh! That is an eyewatering accommodation cost. I know that is a very busy course and to have to find that amount of money in addition to coping with the work load is quite a burden to take on. Good Luck to your DD, I hope she makes shedloads of money when she qualifies.

Sheila: Go for it! You can't put a price on your health and it is the most important aspect if you want a good quality of life. I know people with awful health problems who somehow rise above it and cope brilliantly, and I am in awe of them. But if you have any sort of choice it would be madness not to take the opportunity.

nursemaggie: Thanks for the link. I'll certainly be taking a look.

Right. Off to clear a path to my wool cupboard. (Shudders)

x

Thanks Monnogran, she is going to come out with about £100,000 worth of debt, I would never consider doing something that left me with that amount of debt but I guess that's why I was only ever a PA! Starting salary for vets is about £25,000 and the mega bucks only come if you end up owning your own practise. All the 'holidays they get each year (apart from 3 weeks) have to be spent on placement or doing work experience so it is going to be financially difficult for all of us I think.

We will help her out as much as we can but it won't be much we can do

boultdj

fuddle wrote: »

Wondercollie and Mar you know I am in to dom care now don't ya? Well it's taken me up until recently to get my confidence and my voice. Originally I was going into dementia suffers houses and trying to go about my brief of giving said ladies personal care. I would be hit, scratch, verbally abused you name it. Each time reporting it and asking for help on how to avoid it because in my mind who the heck am I to go into someone's home and put them in a position where they feel angry/scared to react like that. So now I offer assistance, if it's declined, it is decline and I will not push. I feel it is their right. I think 'duty of care' and a patient/service user's right to choose are intermingled and it's those left with the pressure/burdon of 'we must get this brief fulfilled for fear of reprimand'. Ilife aint that clear cut and if I have justify why I haven't given a lady a full strip wash when it has been refused then I will bliddy justify
!

Ask at work if you can go on dementia traing course,I'v just done one last week, and I'm only a scrubber in a nurseing home,hth.