Sounds like the last thing you and your family needed right now. Puts you in a difficult possision too. :( I hope the surgery went/goes well. :hugs:

Would be the same for me, and to say thank you etc. :P

Thanks! :D Looking forward to getting it hopefully when I get back from my trip. :)

yeah. Apparently it won’t be until Monday. And it’ll be a shoulder replacement because the bone is shattered. We didn’t know this yesterday. Dad will have to visit mum whilst Melody is sleeping. We really don’t need this. Sigh

well that definitely wouldn't help! I hope her surgery goes ok (and that the cost isn't astronomical either!), and that your Dad can work around being back home so you can have something to eat as well - that would be bad enough not being able to get your food yourself, without anything else added in!

squishes

reads your most recent post Yowch, that's even worse! I guess at least she's in the best place at the moment (and not trying to struggle at home), but that must feel like an eternity to wait for Monday to come around :(

I hope you have a great trip :D :D

she has fairly good insurance so hopefully it shant be too bad. I know the ambulance ride alone won’t be very cheap but we’ll work that out. at least she is safe now. she couldn’t barely get up, the fire department had to pick her up and get her standing and it was painful for her to put her in a gurney and They took her to the ER in an ambulance but yeah it’s too much. am sure she’s lonely and feel silly and I know she’s scared and I am too honestly. Its a big struggle

Over here everyone moans about the NHS, but at least there's not the individual itemised things that you get charged for over there! I can't imagine what that must be like, to even have a high cost for the ambulance to take someone to hospital in the first place! o.O

squishes

Is your Dad able to do some batch cooking of meals (even pasta or something, if his culinary skills are as limited as my Dad's :P) that could go in the freezer, to give you something you can shove in the microwave to re-heat, without needing to stand and achieve that? (assuming of course that there's a chair and a surface next to the microwave that you can sit there and eat!)

certainly I feel nickled and dimed here. I don't suppose there's a perfect answer.

Oh yes thankfully there are somethings dad cooks well--with recipes. But he's not spending all day at the hospital. He's timing his visits to with Melody's sleep schedule so that's helping.

Ouchie, sounds really painful. >_< You and your family will be in my thoughts. :huggles:

I am leaving later today, my dad is driving me to the airport, so I won't be around much the next week I am guessing. Not bringing my lap.

. :D Thanks, I hope you and your family will have a great Easter. :) I am leaving later today, my dad is driving me to the airport, so I won't be around much the next week I am guessing. Not bringing my lap.

thanks. Have fun

I've never come across that phrase (nickled and dimed) before :P

That's a positive then - I wouldn't want you to need to be reliant on him just doing beans on toast or something! How's Melody behaving?

Have a great birthday and Easter, and enjoy your trip! :D :D

American colloquialism. Basically it means to bleed someone so dry they don’t even have a nickel left—greedy works too. Bled dry

Lol well i can walk without the frame today but its still a bit hard. Certainly im not meant to be making food. She’s been really good for dad

happy birthday <3 To say that yesterday was another difficult day is an understatement. I had my foot doctor apt at 11 and got a call that mum was going into surgery at 11 as well. This stressed me out because I wanted dad to be there. I waited over an hour to see my doctor he was there for one minute told me I had an infection on my toe and an ingrown toe nail. He ordered hydro therapy and left. But they already had someone in hyrdo so I would have to wait. But the longer I waited the more panicked I became. I wound up so overwhelmed I started crying. To this they bandaged my foot up after putting something on it and saying they'll do the hydro on my post op apt Wednesday. i'm kinda not happy about that but it is what it is. now both feet bandaged--go me.

Came home had lunch and laid down around 2, Mum didn't actually get into surgery until like 1. With the delay, dad was in the hospital for like 5 hours or so. Naturally this meant I wound up having to take care of the puppy from 3-5 &6.30-7.30, which I shouldn't've done but there was literally no one else. I did my best to limit how much I got up but I was feeling nauseous and honestly just going to the doc physically wiped me out since I was only 5 days post op and Thursday they had to put me in an air cast which I think set me back as well. Anyway I stayed in the living room with dad and puppy till 9 (partly to limit my movement and partly cos I needed dinner.) So we finally had dinner at 8. I kept feeling nauseous all night, even when I went to bed.

Doctor said mum's shoulder would have looked better if it had been run over by a tractor, which, you know is not a good thing. She's in some pain this morning but seems in good spirits. We are refusing rehab though. So we are pushing for an at home nurse.

that makes sense ;)

That's a good sign that you're able to do a bit more without the frame, although I bet it's hard to stop yourself trying to do a little too much! What's your Dad making for today's meals then?

That's impressive, especially as she's still young :D Has she stopped trying to stand or sit on your foot now?

I'm glad to be ditching the frame, especially swinging myself with it, that sucked beyond words. Left overs. I had instructed him how to make my nachos so I've been having that since Friday (today was the last day) and we had spaghetti last night and tonight.

yes we are both pleased. Don't know, I haven't been out of my room but once today

ooo that's a snazzy HA :D I can imagine! That sounds like it was pretty tasty :D Were the nachos up to your standard, or does he still need a bit more practise? ;)

thanks. I like yours too. He followed my instructions pretty well xd. Id give him an A

thanks :d I thought Niamh should go plant shopping :P

And that's brilliant! My dad would fail at even doing toast without burning it in the toaster (he prefers his to be almost black, whereas I like mine to be brown :P)

To say that yesterday was another difficult day is an understatement. I had my foot doctor apt at 11 and got a call that mum was going into surgery at 11 as well. This stressed me out because I wanted dad to be there. I waited over an hour to see my doctor he was there for one minute told me I had an infection on my toe and an ingrown toe nail. He ordered hydro therapy and left. But they already had someone in hyrdo so I would have to wait. But the longer I waited the more panicked I became. I wound up so overwhelmed I started crying. To this they bandaged my foot up after putting something on it and saying they'll do the hydro on my post op apt Wednesday. i'm kinda not happy about that but it is what it is. now both feet bandaged--go me.

Came home had lunch and laid down around 2, Mum didn't actually get into surgery until like 1. With the delay, dad was in the hospital for like 5 hours or so. Naturally this meant I wound up having to take care of the puppy from 3-5 &6.30-7.30, which I shouldn't've done but there was literally no one else. I did my best to limit how much I got up but I was feeling nauseous and honestly just going to the doc physically wiped me out since I was only 5 days post op and Thursday they had to put me in an air cast which I think set me back as well. Anyway I stayed in the living room with dad and puppy till 9 (partly to limit my movement and partly cos I needed dinner.) So we finally had dinner at 8. I kept feeling nauseous all night, even when I went to bed.

Doctor said mum's shoulder would have looked better if it had been run over by a tractor, which, you know is not a good thing. She's in some pain this morning but seems in good spirits. We are refusing rehab though. So we are pushing for an at home nurse.

I love your look today as well :D haha i remember you telling me that.

they really know how to make you feel great at the foot doc, don't they?! How are you getting on today with both feet bandaged? I'm not surprised you felt so wiped out, especially after the unexpected stress with your Mum falling over the weekend as well squishes

Yowch, that's no wonder she was in so much pain then! Hopefully the at home nurse idea will be accepted by the hospital (and the insurance) - I'd have thought they'd be keen to get people back home as soon as possible (certainly over here, you'd get discharged back home as long as they feel you can cope, and have 6 weeks of 'home from hospital' care available - they can send people to a community hospital, but they don't seem to really like doing that!).

Thanks :) I wanted to try out that new top, and I thought Sid & Sparky should get a chance to be in on the HA as well :P

I certainly felt a bit unimportant yesterday and kept saying I will wait for hydro--I had just wanted a time frame. But at that point I think she wanted to be rid of me. yeah and the stress of my foot in general too. But mum falling certainly has made things harder.

Well we can refuse rehab but it might be a bit of a battle to get what we need for mum... We'll see I guess.
It looks great :)

they certainly sound much like the hospital where Gran had her toe op done - they're so busy that everyone just kind of gets treated as a patient number, rather than a person (if that makes sense?). They're good at what they do, but they could do with adding in a little extra time for each patient to allow for some compassion and empathy from the staff!

Hopefully there'll be a way around that and it won't be too much of a battle to get it working - is at home care something you have to find and arrange for yourselves then, or is it the insurance or hospital that would organise it?

and Thank you so much for the lovely gifts and bday wishes. A bit if a short message after getting home from going out to eat. They trued to kill ud it looked like. lol we found glass in our food. lol noone was hurt thankfully. Other than that I have had a great day. ❤ Raven: I hope both you and your mum recovers well. :hugs: