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Friday 22 January 2010

Nightmare

Life has been nightmarish for last couple of days!
On Tuesday hospital phoned 3 times to say P's Dad coming home that day. P swapped work duties for Weds & came home early & kept popping over to see if he was back but he didn't turn up. In evening hospital phoned up to ask if he'd got morphine at home, I said he hadn't & where was he. They said he couldn't go home until drugs sorted out so he'd be home Weds. P phoned them up & explained he couldn't be there Weds as he'd got to be at work.
Weds afternoon an ambulance man knocked at my door & said he'd got P's Dad but couldn't drop him off unless there was someone to help get him in & he'd been told his son would be there. Eventually he got him into house & went off. I went over to find him in severe pain & hardly able to move. No morphine sent home with him. Stayed with him as long as could. When P got home he phoned surgery who said doctor would be out in morning & would phone me when he got there. Spent morning with P's Dad waiting for doctor who didn't arrive. P came home early. Got phone call from J asking to be picked up. P popped out, doctor came but didn't phone me, just gave P's Dad painkillers which didn't help. Desperately concerned as P's Dad not able to get any food or drink by himself or get to loo & I'm just not able to help him enough.
P phoned social services who sent social worker out this morning. (I won't go into how he typed wrong postcode into satnav & got totally lost). He called ambulance & sent him back to hospital. Ambulance driver suspected he'd got a fractured pelvis which hospital missed.
So there we are, just wait & see. Really think we'll have to complain to hospital about it though, just not good enough.
I've got into such a stressed state it's hard to wind down.

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