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[blissgirl]

Anyone here ?

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[Cleoriff]

Advice from the Hedgehog Rescue was to take it to a rural area and release it. She did say we could leave it in the garage but that's not feasible. Nowhere for it to find a hibernation area and too much activity. It's to be done at night, so it will go this evening.

[gmarkj]

Fingers crossed Mrs Tiggy-Winkle finds a nice home @Cleoriff .

Haven't seen any our way but if they are meant to be all tucked up somewhere that makes sense.

[Cleoriff]

@gmarkj 

My other half took it tonight and found a nice rural area with plenty of bushes and trees. Opened the cat box and like 'a rat up a drain' he/she was gone.

Fingers crossed it does ok x

[gmarkj]

Pleased to hear the release went well. Given the declining numbers of this marvellous little creatures, let's hope that they find a safe, warm place to see out the winter.

Well done Mr @Cleoriff !

[Cleoriff]

My son came home on Sunday. I spent most of yesterday correcting the mess of his medication, District nurse call outs and GP phoning.

So he now has correct meds, D/N coming today, no time given and we are working to a good routine. He couldn't manage crutches so has a high zimmer which he uses to hop around upstairs, comes downstairs on his bottom and goes up same way. This house currently, could be called the House of Zimmers! 😂

[gmarkj]

Oh dear - dare I ask how they managed to mess up his medications? What would have happened if he didn't have you to help untangle everything?

Not surprised with the D/N - when they were required for my nan they sometimes gave a morning/afternoon but not always.

We have a zimmer in the shed if you need a spare!!

[Cleoriff]

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@gmarkj wrote:

Oh dear - dare I ask how they managed to mess up his medications? What would have happened if he didn't have you to help untangle everything?

Not surprised with the D/N - when they were required for my nan they sometimes gave a morning/afternoon but not always.

We have a zimmer in the shed if you need a spare!!

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@gmarkj 

They sent him home with tablets which had on NOT FOR OUTSIDE USE. He had been on them but I knew the course had finished last Friday. He had been having diamorph for pain right up to the day he came home...not a sign of any of that!! (Just Codeine Phos for pain) Rang the GP, he prescribed it immediately. No sharps box for heparin daily syringes. No dressings for the awful blisters on his knee. Out of stock apparently (He had a window cut in this P.O.P. for nurses to do dressings) I rang D/N hub yesterday to ask them to bring them

So suddenly my nursing skills are required here and I'm enjoying it in a weird way. x

[pgn]

Like riding a bicycle, @Cleoriff - once learned, never forgotten 😆

Good job you are on the case, hope d/n visits not too stressful for both patient and other occupants of the house!

[gmarkj]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@gmarkj wrote:

Oh dear - dare I ask how they managed to mess up his medications? What would have happened if he didn't have you to help untangle everything?

Not surprised with the D/N - when they were required for my nan they sometimes gave a morning/afternoon but not always.

We have a zimmer in the shed if you need a spare!!

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@gmarkj 

They sent him home with tablets which had on NOT FOR OUTSIDE USE. He had been on them but I knew the course had finished last Friday. He had been having diamorph for pain right up to the day he came home...not a sign of any of that!! (Just Codeine Phos for pain) Rang the GP, he prescribed it immediately. No sharps box for heparin daily syringes. No dressings for the awful blisters on his knee. Out of stock apparently (He had a window cut in this P.O.P. for nurses to do dressings) I rang D/N hub yesterday to ask them to bring them

So suddenly my nursing skills are required here and I'm enjoying it in a weird way. x

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I'm guessing outside use means outside of hospital and not outdoors then @Cleoriff ?

Sharps box is fairly standard - think we have a couple for my wife's sugar level machine somewhere...

Not sure I want to know how he got blisters on his knee?!? Did the consultant spill his tea?

Guessing the POP is plaster of paris? Rather amusing to think he had this full cast on, and as soon as it dried they immediately cut a viewing window out!

Back to the familiar I would imagine - so long as the staff and patients behave it must be soothing!

[Cleoriff]

@gmarkj 

The medication meant 'only for use in hospital' (I think they must have done his discharge prep on Thursday but he finished the course on Friday.

He got blisters on his knee due to poor treatment. Ray saw his leg on admission and no grazes but two tiny blisters. In A/E they put a plaster backslab on and wrapped a crepe bandage round it. He was expected to go to theatre the next day and didn't go until Friday. So I can only imagine once anaesthetised, they removed the back slab and thought 'oh bloody hell'!!

That's the reason they didn't pin and plate it.... massive risk of infection.

The window was cut out to allow the nurses to do the dressing.

Got the sharps box today. Things are improving thankfully!