Hope everyone is ok l haven't read the thread so please forgive me .
It's been hellish here tbh, just coming out of the quagmire hopefully,
Suffice to say Mum has been through the mill, she had a clot on the lung, Pnuemonia, Pleural Effusions, Heart Arythmias and heart failure, followed up by a nasty dose of HAI Covid Hmm which we all caught , we are just getting over it now. Bob had a sort of mental breakdown/episode when Mum went into hospital, we were staying with him 24/7 while Mum was in hospital. One night while my Dd2 was staying with him, he started gathering rubbish on the patio and threatened to set fire to the house with her in it . Prior to this he had not seen his daughter or son for nearly 2 years . My daughter phoned my Mum up really scared because he had all the keys to the house , My Mum told her to tell him she had told her to go home . He ran away from her , she was searching the streets for him in her car this was 10.30 at night, he ended up at his daughters , she rang her brother , l was threatened with the police , you name it l was mud in their eyes. I have nothing to hide so l reported what had happened to the police myself. They were amazing tbf. They took over care of him for 1 day , just 1 day and they left him because they couldn't look after him any more they couldn't cope with him . Bob realised what he had done and came back to us but we do not stay with him all the time now , we go there to give him breakfast and lunch and supper and he is on his own overnight. His mental health has deteriorated since Mum has been in hospital though. He is seeing people in the garden and there is no one there . So to add to this the whole lot of us have contacted Covid after 2 and a half years of being negative.
We are all ok but it's been like a dose of the flu tbh .
Anyway , with all this stress l ended up having atrial flutter and had to go into hospital on the 4th Sept , it was our 40th wedding anniversary . They gave me one propanolol and it stopped after 30 mins and hasn't raised it's ugly head again thankfully , however l am wearing a 24 hr ecg monitor atm so we shall see what this says , have to go for an ECHO too . The cardiologist told me it was possible that this episode was a one off because of the enormous stress but he wanted to do all the tests to make sure. I went for a BP check and an ECG in my surgery yesterday which was normal thankfully.
Just waiting for Mum to be discharged home in a few days , she has made a remarkable recovery but she is weak and needs building back up again.
I don't know how l am going to manage her and Bob at home tbh but l will have to try my best and see how we get on .
I hope everyone is fine and taking care of yourselves , frugally speaking since Mum has been in hospital , we have been living off Mcdonalds and ready meals, not me but the rest of the family and using enormous amounts of fuel in running around from hospital to hospital , Bobs etc etc so this has been a really spendy month but it is what it is 