Tuesday 25th May 2010
Got to mum early today she was in a terrible state, her clothes were all higgledy piggledy, she had 2 cardigans on all done up wrong and a vest which you could see through and no bra, a skirt ,not tights and her big blue walking shoes on, I gave her breakfast and her meds, and then got her to have a bath, while I did that John cleaned out her fridge and threw quite a lot of stuff away.
Daph came over just before 9am so that she could be with me when Social Services came, they arrived just after 9am two ladies came, Sharon Hale and Jackie Packham, they introduced themselves to mum and asked her a lot of questions, which mum couldn’t answer as she didn’t have a clue what they were talking about!.
They didn’t take much noticed of what we were trying to tell them until they asked if mum had been assessed lately by Dr Asprey, when I said that, yes she had and she had been retested and her score was 11 and Dr Asprey had said that most of her patients with that score are already in a care home, they actually started to listen to us, she said that because of mine and Daphs good care, mum had been able to cope so well, for so long. She offered a lunch time carer, to arrive between 12.30 -1pm, we said what happens if mum goes walk about and is not there, she said that Town and Country carers would either phone me or Daph and if it happens a lot then the carer would be cancelled.
They also offered a weeks respite care at West View Tenterden to give us a break, but we have to fill out a 26 page form!!! Sharon Hale has made an appointment to come to Daph’s house on the 1st June at 2.30pm to go through the form with us. Mum has to agree to want to go into care as she has a say it what happens but she can go in for respite care to help us.
After Social Services left we walked up to the supermarket and we got her shopping, when we got back we sat in the garden for a while.
Before we left I got her a glass of wine and left her sitting watching TV.
Teresa phoned me at home to see how we got on with Social Services, I told her all that had been said, she told me that when she had seen mum on Friday she had been ‘awful’ she had managed to get a lift over to Hawkhurst and when she walked a long to the village she saw mum waiting at the bus stop, when she asked mum why she was there, she told Teresa that she was waiting for her, T said to mum ‘you didn’t know what time I was coming over!, mum told her that she hadn’t been there long.
Teresa said that mum was fine when she saw her on Sunday at Michaels and I said that she would be because she had lots of people around her. Teresa said that she said to Michael at about 6.30pm on Sunday that she noticed that mum looked fidgety and it would be a good idea to take her home, but he said, no he thought it would be good for her to stay longer, I don’t think that he realises that mum had probably been up since 4am!!! That was probably the reason that she was bad on Monday.
No comments:
Post a Comment