suepat10
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At the beginning of December I was talking about the elderly lady downstairs (93) who had fallen and was taken in to hospital and I was saying about the French couple who used to complain about her telly being loud and threatened her with the police (that has no bearing on anything except to jog memories).
Since then I've found out that the woman next door has a key and helps look after her so if there's any problems I can just give her a knock. I'm going to call the woman downstairs 'S' & the woman next door 'J' for ease.
About once a fortnight or so I have to give J a knock during the night. In addition to that sometimes S pushes her lifeline button and they phone the nephew who lives about 30mins away who rings J.
Thursday morning before last, about 3.30am, S was shouting. I went downstairs and she was standing at the bottom. She said her bed was cold and she needed a hot water bottle. I encouraged her to go in to her flat while I got the J .... but she had locked herself out. I fetched J who got her back inside.
I should point out that S has a walking frame, isn't very mobile and is in the early stages of dementia so the fact she has taken herself outside her flat on her own is worrying. I'm concerned she will 'forget' all that and let herself out the front door as she will go headfirst off the front doorstep.
5am yesterday morning S was calling out. Her bedroom is under my son's so he hears and wakes us. I got J. she then came up and knocked on our door asking for help as S had fallen and J can't lift her on her own.
J has since told me she called the emergency doctor late yesterday afternoon (he took 6 hours to arrive) who diagnosed a cracked rib. My feeling is that although they can't do much for a cracked rib, surely a 93 year old would need supervision?
At 3am this morning my son woke me up as S was absolutely shrieking. I got J who called an ambulance. It's 3.45am and they've just put her in (in a chair as opposed to on a stretcher) and driven off.
This is probably going to sound very evil, and I promise I'm not, but a bit of me hopes they keep her in for a couple of nights so I can get a good nights sleep. Currently I go to sleep expecting to be woken up so therefore don't sleep properly. Plus it wakes up my son who's back to school today and when he wakes me up my OH also wakes up and he has to leave for work at 6am and then drive lorries.
Sorry for the ramble - just tired and grumpy.
Since then I've found out that the woman next door has a key and helps look after her so if there's any problems I can just give her a knock. I'm going to call the woman downstairs 'S' & the woman next door 'J' for ease.
About once a fortnight or so I have to give J a knock during the night. In addition to that sometimes S pushes her lifeline button and they phone the nephew who lives about 30mins away who rings J.
Thursday morning before last, about 3.30am, S was shouting. I went downstairs and she was standing at the bottom. She said her bed was cold and she needed a hot water bottle. I encouraged her to go in to her flat while I got the J .... but she had locked herself out. I fetched J who got her back inside.
I should point out that S has a walking frame, isn't very mobile and is in the early stages of dementia so the fact she has taken herself outside her flat on her own is worrying. I'm concerned she will 'forget' all that and let herself out the front door as she will go headfirst off the front doorstep.
5am yesterday morning S was calling out. Her bedroom is under my son's so he hears and wakes us. I got J. she then came up and knocked on our door asking for help as S had fallen and J can't lift her on her own.
J has since told me she called the emergency doctor late yesterday afternoon (he took 6 hours to arrive) who diagnosed a cracked rib. My feeling is that although they can't do much for a cracked rib, surely a 93 year old would need supervision?
At 3am this morning my son woke me up as S was absolutely shrieking. I got J who called an ambulance. It's 3.45am and they've just put her in (in a chair as opposed to on a stretcher) and driven off.
This is probably going to sound very evil, and I promise I'm not, but a bit of me hopes they keep her in for a couple of nights so I can get a good nights sleep. Currently I go to sleep expecting to be woken up so therefore don't sleep properly. Plus it wakes up my son who's back to school today and when he wakes me up my OH also wakes up and he has to leave for work at 6am and then drive lorries.
Sorry for the ramble - just tired and grumpy.