Pekey
VIP Member
I really understand LittleMore Cottage........ my mother had dementia and her personality changed to aggressive , especially towards me who helped her all her life and we got on so well .I can say as a nurse there are good and bad people like anywhere. I spent 39 years caring for the elderly, was not easy. People can be nasty, aggressive and rude. Hit, bite ,punch and kick... it is hard to be kind, compassionate and caring. But everyone deserves respect. I pray for care givers everywhere to keep calm and try to understand what others are going through
It was so difficult and she would not go into a nursing home so care ( when she was not in hospital and that was multiple times as she had very high BP and heart failure) had to come to her home as it was a hour drive to her home but I did it to make sure she was taking her medicine when the nurses were having a hard time.
There were great nurses like you said and sadly Mum had a bad doctor at the hospital that would not sign off on a nursing home . I argued with him so much as Mum had short term memory loss and at night she had "sundowning " and would call me on the phone in the hospital telling me off with the Police etc. - all the nurses knew this but that doctor stood firm.
I even lined up a nice place for Mum to go and stay and she sort of agreed but he cancelled it!
So we took Mum back to her home and the next day I got a call from the care nurse .... Mum was not opening the door to her and she must leave.
I drove over and used my spare key that my Mother did not know I had and she was dead on the floor.
That has been nearly 5 years and I still feel angry at times about that doctor and sad as Mum did not deserve this way to go.
It was very hard to deal with and I do know what care givers go through as I was doing this for years.
Everyone out there that are care givers I send you my love as its so , so hard at times.
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