D'y ever wonder why its ALWAYS this time of night when we start a new thread!!

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Still searching the shag pile for my Faliraki flip flops!!!

Hi all, Trips- glad your mumis a bit better today.
Shabs - Lew - ahh bless!
Chops- might pinch the notebook idea as well.
Better day here so far, taken Cleo to be spayed, amazingly, she behaved beautifully at vets, and all has gone well and she is ready to be collected. Boys are at school, no problems, and DH is taking Pont for MOT tomorrow.
Also, finally got all boys compulsory school uniform bits for high school, has cost just over £200, but at least it is done, Only trousers, shoes and trainers to get now, which I will leave to the summer hols.

Oh girls.....didn`t go to the hosp today as my boys went off to Somerset. Just had call from my brother to say that Mum is now in a side room as she has MRSA:(

Trips what an awful situation for your Mum and you to be in. I feel sad, and angry all rolled together, for you xx

Morning Shabs, morning girls. Cant sleep for worry. Didnt get in until gone midnight, was on here until gone 2am............a friend (Anna`s mum Shabs, Matthews friend)...........type his name and love that name.............seems so strong a name, yet they are not here.
I dread what today is going to bring, each day seems to bring more doubt over whether she will come home:(
Wonder how my boys are doing, bet they were tired last night, Thomas text me at 10.30pm to say they were just going past Stonehenge, they would have had at least another 2 hours after that to go, then they had to pitch their own tents. Reveille, wash. b/fast at 07.00hrs!! Still hope the weather is as nice as it is here this morn, big Air Show today. Sort of missing them....

Morning girls xx

Yes I do know what you mean about seeing their names - it feels lovely doesn't it?

Chelles daughter (she's nearly 23) is going to Kos tonight with her boyfriend. She has never flown before and never been abroad. She is beyond excited!!!

Oh to be 23 and flying to a Greek island................

I am feeling beyond sad tonight.............I walked out of the hospital and just did not want to leave her. She is in a side room now because of the MRSA, she was awake when I went in, but not herself. We talked a little then she got very restless and was wanting to rub her awful foot. The nurse came and gave her a shot of morphine based painkiller, within 10 mins the was asleep, but she was frowning and would not leave her foot alone. When she came round she was hallucinating, it was so sad, so sad. They brought her her supper, a sandwich and a bowl of semolina, they said "try to eat something"...she couldnt, not on her own. I got her to have 5/6 spoofuls of semolina and a few strawberry slices I had taken in. I feel sick, it seems all too quick, this time last week she was still in the home and was herself .I need to cry and I cant, poor poor Mum. xx

Morning girls............peeing it down here big time, really fed up with seeing rain. Off to the hosp later:(

Morning girls xx

Freezing cold here Trips - cold and pouring down. Please give your Mum my love xxxx

Thank you Shabs...............today was a turn around, if only for now. She was wide awake when we went in and was very snappy with everyone. She refused morphine twice, saying she could manage the pain she was feeling, said she hated the way the morphine made her feel. She had some of her lunch and has had much more fluids. The staff on today were not on the ball with her, not very helpful which doesn`t help. The sister herself when I asked how Mum had been said, "well all she does is lie there, makes no effort really to do anything for herself", I soon told her!! Must get some sleep, night night girls.x

Oh well done Trips - get the fuckers fools told!!!

Morning girls!

Had quite a nice weekend, did the family bike ride with two of the kids. It's ten miles, and DT2 came along for first time, and managed very well, although a pedal came off halfway round! Really not sure how he managed to do that.

Trips your mum sounds very up and down. Can't they offer her better painkillers? The morphine doesn't seem to be very good for her at all. I know what she means too, I hate the stuff, ended up just having paracetamol after my cesarean.

Lovely to see you, pixi!

Morning girls xx

Evening all...............what a day! Spent 4 hours at my mums house this morn awaiting delivery from NHS loan service, also man coming with lifeline equipment From there went into town to do big shop as my cupboards look like Old Mother Hubbards! Got home, did big pile of ironing then went over to the hospital, its 15 miles away. Got there to be greeted by a very irate Mother who had had a visit from Social Services more or less telling her she will soon be coming home as everything now is in place for her! My brother turned up and we asked to meet with thej, he took us inro a side room and said that all they were waiting for was the nod from the vascular team she could come home. We pointed out that the team had not been to see her since Frid, and we felt as she was still in the Renal Unit (awaiting a bed in the Vascular Ward) that it was a case of "out of reach out of mind" He told my brother to go up to the vascular ward and kick up He did.......................big time when one of the team said someone had visited her every day, but it hadnt been documented!! He said he knew that wasnt true and that we want some answers, so its tomorrow morning they will speak to us...............somewhere between 9.30am-12pm!! Then came home at 6.30pm to the usual stressful chaos, my £80 worth of shopping had arrived and he couldn`t cope with grilling sausages and putting shopping away at the same time . He has had all day to himself, I have been running ragged and am truly exhausted. Tomorrow is another day............. xx

Morning girls xx

Hope that today is a better day for all of you Trips. xxx

Hell my awd mucker.............today has been no better, in fact worse. We finally got to speak to the vascular team who have given us no hope of them being able to do something for her. So she will be sent home within the next few days and I am dreading it. The drugs to ease the pain send her off to sleep, but not a good sleep ifykwim. The carers will be in 4 xs a day but not between 7pm -8am, that 13 hours left alone stuck in a bed.It is a huge worry, I dare not sugget me sleeping there, he cant cope here now. Have no idea what to do, am completely shattered by the whole thing both mentally and physically. Just for punishment I am having a day off from mum tomorrow. Am going on a school trip with my tiny tigers, down to Dymchurch on the miniature railway! Night night xx

Morning girls - yet ANOTHER rainy day here!

Trips - can you imagine if your Mum had no children or anyone who could help look after her? It doesn't bear thinking about. The Government let our elderly people down - its disgraceful.

Where is every one these days, course we know Shabs and me are always here together cos we were co-joined at birth:o
Had a lovely sort of day off today from the hospital, went on a trip with my Tiny Tigers, was very hot and they were tired and mucky by the time we got them back to school! Walked in feeling happy and saw there was a message for me on the answer phone from the hospital. Apparently my mum had had an "episode" as they called it his morning. When the nurses went in to wake her they couldnt, she was breathing ok but blotto They left her for a while then went back and she was the same. They called the doctors down to her and they couldnt wake her, they did some tests and took blood and everything was normal. An hour later she came round herself, and like the last three days was completely disorientated and confused The doctors and Social workers have asked us to be there tomorrow at 1.30pm. What next? My poor brother had an awful shock today, he was going to see my mum when he finished work, he is a station manager at Dover. As he was finishing his shift a 60 yr old male passenger collapsed, Barry tried to resuscitate him but he died before the paramedics came, Barry said he kept thinking what it must have been like for my friends who tried to save Matthew that awful morning:( Well thats me for today, wish someone would pop in on here its getting lonely....................Kale Nits xx

Hi Trips - just caught up with what has been happening to your mum-disgraceful! I have a friend who is retiring from the NHS after 38yrs, and she has spent the last week doing full on risk assessments about things she has noticed amiss in her area, and it has stirred up a nest of hornets with her managers!! Your Boys will be having a fine time, don't you worry, they will come home, exhausted, filthy but happy.
Been lovely sunny days here since sunday night, the rain is passing us by, thank God. Boys had sports day Monday, and we have the school summer fete Saturday, so hope the weather holds, TBH, it is so humid here at the moment we are sitting with the back door and windows wide open to get a little air movement!!

Its hotter than a sand dancers flip flop here in Lancashire...has been all day - combined with grey skies. I have a 'friendly' Mozzy (mosquito) that keeps flying past my eye line. Not half as impressive as a Greek Mozzy!!! I am waiting for it to bite me and then watch the bump grow!!!! I am (according to my Greek cypriot GP) very allergic to their bites. If the little git comes much nearer I will bite it back!!

Trips - wonder what has happened with your Mum? How weird. Your brother sounds like he has had a horrible day as well. Are you totally sure there is nothing at all I can do to help...I know that many miles separate us but if there is anything you can think of I would gladly help xxxx

That is so kind of you Shabs, will send DK up with a one way ticket :o

No probs Trips - your DK and my DK can keep each other company

Pick you up in Dover at 6.30pm