What a difference a day makes...

Though if you did get the ironing bug he could do worse than checking out the . I would, however, with my vast store of SWMBOly knowledge of these things, caution against the use of the iron on its hottest setting <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.extremeironing.com/modules.php?set_albumName=album06&id=08050001_G&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php>on the sails while trying to control the boat. I mean, look at all those creases!

Seriously though, I really hope your SWMBO recovers quickly, glad to hear your NHS experience was a good one. As someone who's worked in the NHS on and off for years, and with a husband who is a (very hard-working, caring, experienced, put-upon, criminally underpaid) nurse, I feel I need to stand up for those of us who often feel we're fighting a losing battle.

Good luck with the dryer. They are things of dark and terrible magic...

<hr width=100% size=1><A target="_blank" HREF=http://kilkerr.members.easyspace.com/santateresa_pics.htm>Santa Teresa and other t'ings</A>
 
Re: top tip

Mike
let her shout all she wants
it's when she starts making sense you know either she's better or you're both in the mire
mrs s sends her best wishes too
max


<hr width=100% size=1><font color=red>if guinness is good for you. i must be very very good</font color=red>
 
Re: Is the NHS crap - Yes - yes and yes!

Really glad that it all worked out Ok for you, and hope it doesnt take the gilt off christmas for you both. Now you do know how to cook the turkey, dont you....?

And I'm glad too for your sake the NHS worked well for you, as my experience is VERY different: 6 years ago my 84 year old Dad was admitted to Hospital with stomach pains. After a months tests he was sent home with the diagnosis: ' nothing seriously wrong - just a an old man making a fuss' He died a couple of weeks later of stomach cancer - by then diagnosed and treated by the GP and the Macmillan Foundation. Mum had died a few years previously - again in spite of spending time in hospital who had afailed to spot her cancer.

Currently one of my clients is in hospital, again apparently dying because he either will not or can not eat. The hospital failed to realise what was happening for the first month, and we often found him sitting in his own faeces or urine - IN THE HOSPITAL WARD - while the nurses were sitting round drinking tea. They had not spotted either, that he was refusing to eat or drink anything - until he collapsed and ended up in th HDU. A string of formal complaints mean that he is now getting good personal care, but still the Doctors seem not to be making any real effort to find out what is wrong. Why? because as an autistic man he is only receiving basic care - as so often happens with people with Learning Difficulties.

To balance that, my SWMBO had to go in for a minor op - same Hospital - and had first class treatment and care.

So its just a complete lottery.

Glad it worked for you though.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
TCM - you do realise of course that if Nicho calls in the Home Helps we will have to pay for it through the Council Tax bill?

Tony Bleh and his merry men are cutting central government funding for Social Services so deeply that they are increasingly having to be funded directly from your Council Tax

And I bet you don't want to pay any more of that than you have to! And no you havent paid enough for Social Services to come running at your beck and call. Its all gone to central government - never to be seen again!




<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Luckily, most of the Xmas shopping has been done, and we are with relatives over the Xmas period, so no cooking etc at our house. Anyone whose presents have not yet been bought are getting money!! Pleased to say thats she's getting a bit better every day

Thanks for you thought

Mike

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Is the NHS crap - Yes - yes and yes!

Not wishing for this post to become a debate over the NHS particularly, but we did have the same experience as yourselves with and an 89 year old relative in a major Thames Valley hospital. The medical staff were rude, arrogant and seemed not very caring for elderly patients. This poor old soul was left sitting in diarohhea for hours on end, and when the sheets were finally changed, they were thrown on the floor. When finally removed the residue was left on the floor for people to walk in. She was basically being neglected badly, with leg ulcers undressed for days, and no one supervising her feeding. She was basically starving to death!. We pinned a very arrogant lady consultant in the corner and read her the riot act to the extent she was trying to call for security (!), after which things did improve a bit. The old girl was dying anyway, we knew that, but in those few weeks she lost all her dignity.

We have private medical insurance (that unbelievably paid us £100 for every day Marie was in an NHS hospital!!) so as to, as far as possible, avoid the NHS, but in an emergency, you are left at their mercy. I have to say once again however, that the staff and treatment at the Trafford General could not have been bettered.

I think you may be right, it is probably a lottery.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Other threads that may be of interest

A
Raising a junk mast
2 3
Replies
41
Views
1K
Chiara’s slave
Chiara’s slave
S
Linssen Boats - good or bad?
2 3
Replies
53
Views
2K
Time Out
T

Share this page

Top