Archive for the ‘Caregiving’ Category
Is that really too much to ask for?
At the moment, Mom is eligible for 120 hours of Home Support per month, and uses 28 hours of it. That works out to ONE HOUR PER DAY, for the entire month. The purpose is not to just provide her the support she needs, but to give the …
There seems to be a thought process with Beacon Community Services, that it is a good thing, to keep their Patients uncertain of who will show up to help them. Even if you have a regular worker, they mess with it, simply…. because they can.
Finally we have established a core of workers, that work well …
I suppose it should be four egos, the dog sure as heck has one to match those of Mom, David, & myself. Seems it is a constant clash these days, and you know the juggling is becoming harder & harder.
I don’t know whose ego to massage anymore, sure as hell isn’t mine. It is always …
Mom has a worker she really liked, who had an accident that made her take several weeks off, in order to recuperate. Now that she is back, she’s off to other people, and not even with a full schedule. She has time available, in Mom’s time slot, but it seems that SENIORITY takes precedence over …
Read MoreAgain, we had to have a blood test for Mom’s INR. The levels were not good, and it seems Mom isn’t the only one experiencing such a fluctuation. According to the lab worker, they have been doing a fair number of re-tests over the last month, though it seems to be settling down now.
Makes you …
Another of those nights, where she claims to have seen someone in the backyard, flashing a light up into the window. Her imagination is getting good, but truth is, no one was in the backyard. At worse it was the idiot behind us, driving into his driveway and the headlights played across the window.
Still it …
There are times when I wonder, if I am just spinning my wheels, or merely going crazy. I mean, I want to do my best, and yet it seems like Mom isn’t willing to work with what we got. I mean we aren’t rich, I have to work from home, eke out a living from …
Read MorePatricia Donaldson phoned this morning, regarding my complaint from the weekend. An interesting conversation, given that I think we are poles apart on what we consider proper care for the elderly.
To begin with, the policy at Beacon is that they will attempt to contact a ‘client‘ [I really hate that word, it should be PATIENT] …
It is an interesting side note, to the way Beacon Community Services deals with its Patients. They provide a schedule, to their Patients so they can supposedly know who is going to be attending.
IN THEORY that is a nice tool to have. It lets us know who is coming, and if there are changes, well, …
