Rowena8482 
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I could - I could call it the "care and feeding of 40 old people on £360 a week, including all cleaning supplies, toilet paper, lightbulbs and air fresheners" :-| and casually ask if two tinned tomatoes on a slice of very cheap white bread constitutes a sufficient evening meal for a man who, although in his late 80s is still over 6ft tall, well built, and active (but only because his friends bring him sandwiches and sweeties when they visit) :-| The place is closed now, and the owners no longer operate care homes, so I can be thankful for that at least.
Reply #1581. Oct 09 10, 3:39 AM
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| C30
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You know, that is my personal "nightmare scenario", sitting in a care home waiting to die..............shudder.
Reply #1582. Oct 09 10, 11:01 AM
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Rowena8482
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After I worked in one I gave Gothson strict instructions that I have to be smothered with a nice soft pillow before he ever contemplates putting me in one of those places!
Reply #1583. Oct 09 10, 4:13 PM
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| lesley153
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Nice little earner. And I bet the 40 people were paying something like £360 a week each for the privilege of being underfed. How did the place get closed down?
The prospect of living somewhere where you do a daily head count is simply horrendous.
If Jonathan told me to be nice to him, because one day he'll be choosing my retirement home, I would not be amused! I think I'd go for the nice soft pillow as well. |
Reply #1584. Oct 09 10, 4:36 PM
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Jazmee27
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Mom would probably do the same-as would I (I may be young, but I've heard the horror stories... and I was even in the rehab unit of a home [I refer to three years ago, and I thought it was a nice place until I heard that the on-duty nurse was later sloppy and helped spread a nasty infection.) Also, even if the residents aren't underfed the food for the most part is disgusting!)
Reply #1585. Oct 09 10, 6:41 PM
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| lesley153
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There are a few good ones but they have long waiting lists or cost a fortune or both. I don't know of anyone in my family who has gone into a home, and I'm not anxious to break with tradition. Everyone I know of has died at home or during a short stay in hospital. My uncle even nursed his wife through motor neurone disease. (Not something I want to think about.)
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Last week was quite busy and I am ashamed to admit that all this unaccustomed activity has caught up with me and bitten me on the bum. I woke up and ten o'clock this morning and fell asleep again till two. *blushes furiously*
As a result, I missed two calls from the "friend" who hates driving. The first one was just before twelve. Would I like to join her for a latte in town at about three. Hopes I'm well, and not still in bed. (!) The second one was a voice text a few minutes later. She's walking into town and would I like a latte or is it too short notice?
I heard the messages when I fell out of bed at two and texted back ta for invite but overslept and still sleepy. Maybe another time. :-/ I really didn't expect to hear from her! |
Reply #1586. Oct 09 10, 7:20 PM
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| lesley153
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| I've just watched Mock the Week. It's lost its bite now that Frankie Boyle isn't on it, but getting Jack Whitehall on it is the last nail in its coffin. Who decided that this boy was funny - his daddy the theatrical agent? |
Reply #1587. Oct 10 10, 6:00 PM
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| lesley153
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I share my birthday with a lot of illustrious people, from Georg Telemann and John Strauss Snr to Taylor Hanson: from Albert Einstein to Jasper Carrott.
During the course of my research into Mrs Slocombe's pussy - looking for video clips that were fit to post but I didn't find one - I saw a reference to a porn "star" born on my birthday. So I checked, and found that I share my birthday with five known porn "stars," including one man, considered famous enough to be named in Wikipedia.
In the last few years, I'd started thinking that I had missed the opportunity to be a psychologist - but this is very different. I now realise that I missed the opportunity to make lots and lots of money. And no, I doubt that it would have been fun: just very hard work... all the way to the bank. |
Reply #1588. Oct 12 10, 7:10 AM
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| lesley153
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Joan Sutherland died a couple of days ago, and I can't believe that nobody has posted about her. So I have.
Small problem: where? Is she people? celebrities? music? In the end, I put the thread in entertainment. Makes a change from SpamBot threads. "Today has been brought to you by this letter, that number and a word that nobody has heard of."
Nope. Today has been brought to you by the death of a world-renowned coloratura soprano. |
Reply #1589. Oct 12 10, 7:15 AM
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Rowena8482
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I just started reading Frankie Boyle's autobiography (with the unprintable on here title lol) and so far it seems to be his entire live act interspersed with moments of unutterable bleakness and sad snapshots of his youth (admittedly I am still only up to his late teens) - he has made a couple of VERY pertinent and insightful comments on addiction so far though, possibly because he was speaking from experience. Every so often he has a wonderful turn of phrase in between the ranting, and lots of it is "laugh out loud but make sure nobody is reading over my shoulder" unpolitically correct :-D (typical of the man himself really)
Reply #1590. Oct 12 10, 3:04 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh yes - I've seen that advertised, and it sounds like an apt title - "My less-than-satisfactory life so far." I haven't read an autobiography for years (I think George Melly might have been the last one) but I'd be interested to know what makes Boyle tick.
Thank you for the warning. If I do read it, it'll be at home. People seem to give you funny looks when you laugh too loudly on a train. They probably would if you laughed too much in a hospital waiting room but it hasn't arisen yet.
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I'm seeing my surgeon in Papworth on Monday, and I'm hoping to feel better afterwards than I have since seeing people in the local hospital.
Jonathan said that the operating team told him I'd had veins taken from my leg to help with plumbing in the new bit. The local people are convinced that I had a coronary bypass, although the consultant admitted that they still haven't had a discharge letter from Papworth. Bit of a backlog, apparently!
The surgeon said, in view of my aversion to Warfarin, he would discount mechanical valves, and talk about tissue replacements. The local consultant wants to put me on Warfarin, and he also wants to get me back on statins, even though my last cholesterol reading, less than a month ago, was 2.6.
When I got to the local hospital in March/April this year, the consultant said that they'd ignored my pulmonary hypertension last October, because everyone has some degree of pulmonary hypertension. I asked him why the tests I'd had in October last year (echocardiogram and electrocardiogram, interpreted by one of their most senior cardiologists) hadn't picked up any of my aortic stenosis and calcification. He said that these tests don't pick up calcification, and they didn't pick up stenosis and regurgitation, because there can't have been any to pick up. These things can happen very quickly, with a replacement valve: not so quickly with a natural valve. He also said that the line of vision of the two tests wasn't lined up with the bit of my heart that it needed to be lined up with, which is why the images from the trans-oesophageal echo had been so much clearer. Oh good!
Even though the oedema had given me horribly swollen legs, and my ex-GP had given me a dose of diuretics that wasn't enough to get the water out of a stone? but I didn't ask him that.
Either he's simplifying things so much that they're beyond comprehension, or he's terrified of giving me ammunition for litigation. I just want to find out what happened, what went wrong, and be reassured that it won't happen (to anyone) again.
Meanwhile, who do I believe? the operating team at the specialist hospital, or the local people who haven't had a discharge letter?
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Reply #1591. Oct 13 10, 9:49 AM
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Jazmee27
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What a mess!
Reply #1592. Oct 13 10, 11:23 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Jazmee. I'm glad you think so too.
Can I put my surgeon and my consultant back to back with pistols? |
Reply #1593. Oct 13 10, 12:43 PM
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honeybee4
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It definitely sounds as if you had a coronary bypass surgery as well as getting the valve fixed. What other reason would they need the leg veins for. They took five veins out of my legs for my bypass. I haven't took a blood thinner since I was released from the hospital. I do take a staten for cholesteral.
Reply #1594. Oct 13 10, 2:15 PM
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| lesley153
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They took two bits of vein out of my leg, and that's the only thing that's still a bit uncomfortable. Judy, five pieces must have been very uncomfortable indeed! (Ouch.)
They put me on a 75mg daily aspirin, but the consultant wants me on Warfarin because I have an atrial flutter. :( Not as bad as arrhythmia, and definitely not in the same league as atrial fibrillation, but still undesirable.
I'm on so many pills now, I'm starting to rattle. I don't think anyone wants to rattle.
I'm hoping it'll be resolved, one way or another, on Monday when I see my surgeon. I shall make a list of things to ask him, and I shall stick it to the front door, so I don't forget it. |
Reply #1595. Oct 13 10, 3:18 PM
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| lesley153
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Had a lovely night's sleep... sleeping like a log when a text came through - my heavily-pregnant niece, who had two boys, now has three boys.
Then a text from Jonathan to tell me he didn't have any lectures this morning, and to ring him when I was "awake" (huh!) to find out why not. He was on his way to Selfridges where Michael McIntyre was having a book signing.
Then a phone call, just us I was finally struggling into unconsciousness, from the Woman Who Hates Driving. A few years ago we got together with a boy she'd taught and I knew from "helping" in the classroom, and his mum. Nothing special, just coffee and chat. She's bumped into the boy's mother again. So they caught up (her mother died about twelve years ago, and her father has just been burgled and has lost all his wife's jewellery) and suggested getting together again, at half term so the boy could come too. Nice idea. I told her the days I couldn't do and she will arrange a date and decide where.
And now I'm off to a cardiac rehab session. The man who takes the exercise "complained" that we all wore boring brown or black shoes, so I said I'd wear my red ones next time. I have got my red shoes ready to put on. :)
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Reply #1596. Oct 14 10, 4:59 AM
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| lesley153
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I'm off to Papworth tomorrow, to see my surgeon for the first time since the op.
I have a few questions for him...
Jonathan is coming to Bedford at lunchtime to go with me, and he'll be staying overnight, which will be nice. |
Reply #1597. Oct 17 10, 7:03 PM
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Jazmee27
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Good :)
Reply #1598. Oct 17 10, 7:37 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks - he's on his way right now.
I rang my surgery to ask what the cholesterol reading was when I went for a blood profile at the end of September. On the basis that no news is good news, I was leaving it till I see my GP on Friday, but thought it might be useful to know what the latest one was. I couldn't remember who told me 2.6.
The latest one was 6.3! The one before that was 5, and I didn't even know about that one. So who told me 2.6?
Could it have been Haematology? I got their answering machine.
Will the Cardiac Support team know? Yes! They got the figure on my referral from Papworth. It says HDL .6, LDL 1.6, total 2.6, ratio 4:3. *sob* I give up. Unless it was .6 and 1.0? No, that's not a very good 4:3 either. Relax, see what the surgeon says. |
Reply #1599. Oct 18 10, 5:52 AM
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| lesley153
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That was such a good consultation - I'd been feeling low since the visit to the consultant ten days ago, and today's visit immediately wiped the bleugh left by Bedford.
He's booking me in for cardioversion in six weeks, and explained why I need to have warfarin for about six weeks beforehand. Did I want to have it in Papworth or Bedford? Papworth Papworth Papworth ... did I say Papworth?
He also explained the bypass. It wasn't because there was a coronary artery blocked with cholesterol: it was because some of the connecting bits were too calcified to be connected.
And Papworth still haven't sent Bedford a discharge letter! |
Reply #1600. Oct 18 10, 2:07 PM
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