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Yesterday was a long day: I went shopping early, and got back just after 08:00 to find Herself on the floor unable to get up. Some querying later and she was trying to refill the cat treats tub by standing on the arm of an armchair which promptly tipped her off and she slammed to the floor.
Now, I do know enough that if I try to pick her up, I'll make things worse - she weighs more that I do - so it's time to call for emergency services. With help over the phone, I get her up and sat down, but it's clear everything is not right, she's in huge amounts of pain when she moves. Two hours later an ambulance arrives to check her, and her left arm is injured - broken or dislocated, we're not sure but either way it's off to hospital which everyone was trying to avoid - at that point one ambulance had been sitting outside the A&E / ER waiting to unload a patient for 22 hours!
So she gets walked (very slowly) to the ambulance, and I follow it down. Ten minutes after we arrive, she's been triaged and sent to a special clinic - OPAS or "Older Persons Assessment Service"* And there she stays, x-rayed, diagnosed, and in pain while they try to sort it all out. She's broken her humerus right near the top which is a pretty bad idea since they can't put a cast on it, just a frame to try and hold it in one place. She has to wait, and wait for a consultant to get round to looking at it. He suspects she also has some osteoporosis so we'll have to look at that later as well.
And there I stay as well: in a tiny waiting room with no aircon but a heater I can't turn off and a gentleman who had been there since 23:00 the previous night. His phone is flat already, mine is well on the way ... Neither of us thought to bring a charger.
Finally, we get home about 18:00 and get her settled, fed, pilled, and sorted - she has to sleep sitting up for a while (so she can't roll over) so she'll be downstairs, and I'll be up. Neither of us get a good night's worth: every time she moves it hurts, and a lot - which wakes me up as well. The cat is sulking because things have changed and he doesn't like that, not at all - I have have lost my nightly foot warmer.
04:00 and I get up - it's silly lying there awake trying to not wake someone who isn't really sleeping either.
As I said, I'm knackered.
And you want to know the funny bit? She has to do 15 training courses every year for work - one of which is a "health and safety" course which devotes a good quarter of it's runtime to "Don't stand on chairs" ...
She won't do that again.
* Why do I suspect the acronym came first and some German humour was involved, given that "Opa" is German for "grandfather"?
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That sounds a bit like my wife, she has quite a history of falling and breaking / bruising too.
Hope she will recover soon!
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Sorry to hear Griff. Hope she is on the road to a speedy-as-possible mend.
Goes without saying but as we all get older we have to really think first before we act/move/whatever. Always asking ourselves "Is what I am about to do a great idea?".
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I think it's going to take quite a while - it's a big bone, and bones heal slower as you get older.
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Condolences, hope all turns out well.
Us older folks take longer to heal.
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Oh boy Griff. Best wishes for you and the Mrs.
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Nasty. I hope the missus has a speedy recovery.
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OriginalGriff wrote: She has to do 15 training courses every year for work - one of which is a "health and safety" course
Never let them know how this happened, she'll have to do 30 courses every year...
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Sorry to hear about your wife. Hope she's not in quite as much pain.
My wife has a condition which means she has collapsed a couple of times and it's not clear why. She was taken by ambulance (with lights & sirens) to hospital once while she was at the local doctors' surgery and collapsed!
The most recent time, she hit her head so NHS Direct (general telephone medical assistance) advised going to A&E (ER). We were there from about 6:30pm to around 4am before we saw a doctor. She's now on the "Urgent" list to see a specialist... since last September!
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My best to her healing quickly. She is having a "gnarly" time.
Knackered is interesting description. My Father used say he had "gnarly" day.
At my previous work, "slip, trip and fall" were #1 causes of accidents which also applies to home.
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Hopefully she recovers completely. What really concerns me is the two-hour response time for emergency services. That's criminal.
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I agree - but they are all queued up outside A&E waiting to unload patients because there are no free beds in the hospital for the existing patients that need to stay, because Social Services haven't arranged a care plan yet and won't let the ones that are ready to leave the hospital go until they do in case they get sued. And Social Services are under huge pressure which they lump onto the Care workers ... who are under appreciated and overworked.
We used to have an integrated system, but they privatized some of the Care system that was local council run to "make it cheaper" and as usual it became profit seeking instead of client focussed. That filters back up through the system until ambulanced are spending a coupe of shifts sitting outside A&E every day.
The only way to fix this is to get the private companies out of the picture and work out an integrated way to process patients through the system.
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I wasn't standing on a chair; Standing is enough of an effort since my stroke, but I was walking and fell against the arm of a chair and broke a rib. That was no fun.My wife called emergency 911 and they got me to a hospital.
I was diagnosed with a fractured rib and pneumonia. Six weeks later I was sent to a nursing home for 3 weeks.
I think chairs should be declared deadly weapons.
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