The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124106   Message #2740636
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
07-Oct-09 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: 95 years old, can't have a bath on NHS!
Subject: RE: 95 years old, can't have a bath on NHS!
Actually, Tim...you still don't get it.

I did it so that it would blow this problem open, get others talking about it....

But off you go again..."You're so self-obsessed, Lizzie!" yadda yadda yadda...

yup, and that's why I've looked after 3 out of 4 of my elderly parents and in-laws...total self obsession, right?

No, Vi wanted to have the people come to see if they could help her. She told me she'd be fine for a few weeks washing down, as they'd be here soon enough...Ha!

She never wants to be any trouble to anyone, just gets on with things every single day...

She managed fine with handrails before, absolutely fine but nope, that wasn't even taken into consideration, because the seat and handles were recommended, and then the use of the shower, being hand-held.

The builder didn't fit any handles because er....Torbay Care Trust were er...on their way round to do that for her, or so I so stupidly thought...

There was far more in that interview, FAR more, with far more passion and anger too, but he already said, before we started, that the BBC have to be very careful what they allow on, in case of legal action being taken....and they've had several run in's with the Care Trust before....so what you got was the beige bland and boring part...but that doesn't matter, because it will have touched other people, made them feel a little angry too..and perhaps make them fight as well, for their relatives.

This situation is wrong, as are many other things in this country, and if we do not stand together and use our voices, in an ever increasing sound proofed world, then we will never be heard.

You get the Health Service you deserve I guess...and it seems to me that most here want the NHS to do less and less and less, whilst those at the top take more and more and more...

This is NOT about me....but as ever, that's what you guys will spin around to because your heads are always facing the wrong path.

I'm sorry about your brother, mandotim, extremely sorry.