So lets talk about Mummy Dearest , im sure some of you remember her , now at 86 shes been locked up for 18 months in her bungalow getting fouler and fouler , she was missed off the vulnerable list and it has been a nightmare , if an elderly neighbour hadnt adopted her , she quite frankly would have been found when the pile of post was half way up the door , but shes just as stubborn as ever and hasnt run out of booze yet , though shes run out of friends as she tells me everybody is dead or been put in a care home . Now before Covid she was awaiting cataract surgery and her eyesight has got to the stage where she cant even read the labels on her bottles , shes reduced to wiltshire farm foods or Parsley Box . Now she is due next week to go into hospital to have a cataract removed , but only if shes had her Covid booster and her flu jab , but she couldnt get them anywhere in her area theyre not doing them yet . Well she got a bit annoyed at this having rung her shut up shop GPs umpteen times and being told she must book online , in fact she got so annoyed she jumped in a taxi and went to the surgery . This in it self should have warned them , but she managed to get into the building when a delivery bloke was leaving and once she was in she wasnt leaving ..lol ..now she may appear a tiny little old lady who they can bully , but once shes on rant theres no stopping her . So in no uncertain terms she told them she wasnt planning on dying just to oblige them , they could sort out her vaccine appointments now , at which point the receptionist started on the whole you need to book online , mother called her a fuckwit , im fairly sure she picked that phrase up from me and pointed out she lived alone saw nobody and is classed as blind how was she supposed to book these soddin appointments . The practice manager had to be called out to give her the whole you will need to leave because you are abusing the staff . She refused to leave and they said they would ring the police . Well she quite liked the idea of that because she hasnt seen them since she went into isolation but she also pointed out that she was going to the local press next stop . So in the end they sat her down in an office and gave her a cup of tea . They booked her vaccine appointments 30 miles away so now she can have her operation , then they asked her why she hadnt got a fall monitor which set her off on another rant because they may be free but they charge you to come and see whats going on if its set off . They eventually managed to get her back in the taxi by telling her that someone from the council would be coming to do a care assessment ....god help them ...lol And the reason i know all this my cousin was hiding in the waiting room hoping she didnt spot him
Love this, I know she may drive you mad Kate but what a feisty lady and quite frankly that's the only way to get anything done these days. Finally had to get the Respiratory team in for Tom he was in such a state, turns out the paramedic (over the phone instead of the dr) gave him the wrong stuff.
ReplyDeleteThey have finally given him a few steroids and I'm hoping they improve things. My kids are telling me to be patient with him, they should try it.
Rant over !
Briony
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its just endless , i spend half the nights listening for himself , wondering if hes alive . waiting for his little coughs , hoping he doesnt start into big coughs and he cracks his ribs yet again, its going to be a very long winter.
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DeleteIf more people did this things would improve
ReplyDeletemalice and venom are what my mother runs on , always has . But they have long forgotten that shes a retired nurse and the bullshit doesnt wash with her
DeleteWhen I was a child I was convinced I had a sister my mother was keeping secret. She may well be you since our mothers sound like the same person. So difficult and you have my sympathy.
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