Honestly the last two weeks have been terrible.
My Mum has been really unwell and an urgent scan has been requested for next week.
The GP wanted to put her on morphine but community was saying we needed a care package to help her take her existing medication.
we genuinely were is a crisis. So the last few weeks have been very busy. We have had District Nurses, hospital at home teams, carers, key boxes installed, wheelchairs delivered. Cleaners interviewed anbd anppi Everything came together but it was hard work.. like really hard work. All of this I have been suggesting to her for months
i was going in at 6am to help my mum every day - she stays about 40mins away so you can imagine.
She wanted her hair washed and as she is a lady of an older generation I suggested I take her to the hairdresser as I have no idea how to style and dry old people hair!
I picked her up and took her, waited and took her home did all the ancillary bits in the house and was hoping to get a few hours to myself for the afternoon
so I booked her in to get her hair washed. I helped her back to the car and she got annoyed as I booked a shampoo and blow dry as opposed to a shampoo and set. I didn’t know the difference. She complained for ages about it. I apologised and have offered to pay for it since I got it wrong.
When I get home I get a phone call from ger, she in in a state because I gave her a box from my own house with good quality cleaning products, fresh rubber gloves etc (I paid for it all) so that the cleaner can go to the box and find everything she needs. My mum isn’t happy with this as she keeps stuff all over
I honestly can’t do anything right. I’m trying to make life easier for people helping her which in turn will help her but she just goes on and on and on about it.
Then she was complaining I hadn’t swept the leaves up and what will the neighbours think.. honestly I couldn’t care.. I’m so tired run down and broken form the hours I have spent nursing her the last two weeks and because she is feeling a bit better.. I’m getting it.
sorry for the rant but I just don’t know why she is behaving like this. She must see the work I have put in.
