A new chapter, An empty nest, Drama school & Last year of Uni

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warby68 said:

A sensible decision for Nan although I expect her response will be challenging to say the least. My mum always responds best to the 'professionals' telling her something she doesn't like rather than me so I would at the very least arrange to have them there when she is told. So far with my mum all the decisions she didn't like have proved to be the correct ones.

Its clear that health regions all operate slightly differently but I found they tend to go back to the drawing board after each hospital admission and the discharge people this time can be completely unaware what was planned last time. Hopefully that was just an inefficiency for us locally but it becomes very time consuming and confusing especially when they tell the elderly person a different plan. 

I'm sure you will stay on the case as necessary but so many things have happened that I never expected to in the world of care for the elderly that I thought anything is worth a mention.

Yup this seems to be accurate. Parents were told last night that they were looking to discharge Nan today. To where exactly is beyond me, she's 100 clearly unwell and incontinent with breathing difficulties connected to heart issues, spending most of the time asleep and barely eating. Nan's SW has already said she can't return home and that decision was made when she was in better health than currently. SW also said that care home parents selected isn't going to be able to meet Nan's changed needs. Parents aren't able to care for her and the assessment centre she was sent from discharged her from there after she spent her first night in hospital and packed up all her clothes for parents to collect. I've told Mum to ring SW and leave it for her to deal with, Can't find out what's going on as have lost my phone in the hosue, Alexa for some reason is just cutting off and not ringing it (pretty sure it has charge on). I cant leave the house to walk to my parents for help as am waiting for a delivery  that is needed for a job we've got someone coming round to do tomorrow. Have emailed Mr S but hes currently 5 hours behind so not even 5am there yet. Stressed isn't the word for it all!

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Nan hasn't been discharged, she's been transferred to another ward more suited for her needs. Think someone somewhere got their wires crossed. She has perked up a bit since yesterday.

 I waited in for the delivery - a curtain pole and hated it on sight (too thin and in sections).  I ended up ringing my parentst, who called after visiting Nan, burst into tears over it and they ended up running me to Dunelm to get another. Without a car it's a struggle to get to places here as so much retail  is out of town and then the buses don't run where and when you need them to and though it's walkable, it's a long walk (around an hour).

Phone was eventually found in my work bag. No idea why i put it there as I'm not in for a few days! 

I now have 2 social invites for Saturday a Xmas school reunion and a carol singing service with a friend, however I've ear-marked that time for Xmas tree putting up. How come some days you have nothing on then others a choice of what to do.