more mishaps...no rest for me
A page in the diary "Sue's thoughts on life"
Written by suew Sunday, 14 June 2009 18:42
Well, I thought I had it made, the people who run the Respite Camps Ray goes to at Camp Breakaway had some extra funding so offered some of their regulars an extra weekend camp at very little cost. Wow, I was so thrilled, a couple of extra days off, some "me" time.
I should have known better. I did a little extra on Friday, like visiting a good friend for afternoon tea. Saturday I went to Ray's stroke support group's monthly meeting. We know a lot of people there and Ray meets some of the men at Scallywags. Some of the carers are very supportive so I like to go to a least every second meeting. This time I was able to stay for lunch too which was nice.
I dialled for messages when I got home to find four urgent ones, all about Mum having a fall and being taken to hospital. I rang the hostel and she wasn't back so I knew it was serious, rang the hospital and they asked me to come in to fill in some paper work so Trev and I drove over.
She has broken her right hip. At almost 91 and with severe dementia I doubt they are going to operate on her. The orthopaedic team will see her tomorrow and if they are willing to operate I will have it pinned, if not it will be bed rest for six weeks and she may never walk again!
It seems as if our incident-free times are few now. I will try to get some extra care for Ray so I am not hauling him to the hospital every day. I know at least for a while I will need to feed her and supervise her drinking etc as she will be sedated and unlikely to feed herself.
Wish me well with it all, if I am tired now this routine will be exhaustng.