Just had the most awful weekend ever. Mum was discharged on Friday evening at 9pm. It was all terribly rushed and unorganised. Mum was sent home with NO medication at all. Dad asked for an ambulance to take her home as he wouldn't be able to get her up a very steep flight of stairs leading up to my parents flat. They bundled her up the stairs, pushing her, and they didn't have a chair. Mum was so weak once she finally got up the stairs. Later on in the evening Mum fell off the toilet and became paralysed and Dad couldn't move her. Luckily Dad managed to get her on to a mattress on their bedroom floor where she spent the night. She was v hydrated abnd had been on nil by mouth for the previous 2 days at hospital. She had no pain relief or antibiotics.
I'm absolutely disgusted how the hospital dealt with her discharge. All they seemed to care about was kicking everyone out for the easter weekend. Dad's going to be making a formal complaint as that Mum has only weeks left to live and will deteriorate rapidly. Mum is mainly staying in bed and using a commode. At least she's still eating. She's in no pain as she has morphine. Nurses are coming in every night at 10pm to administer IV antibiotics. She just looks so very unwell and it's so distressing to see her like this.....
I'm absolutely devastated and lost for words. I can't get my head around this news. Luckily I have an extremly supportive boyfriend who i love very much. I don't know what I would have done without him this weekend. I'm scared that I'm going to slip back in to my old habits - I used to self harm.
Anyways, just taking a day at a time and going to spend as much time with Mum as possible.
Sarah xx
