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Group 7-day waking average?

4.0 today for me. Amazingly I had my first Unicorn Day yesterday!

Yesterday started with a phone call from Ireland to my wife to say one of her cousins had passed that morning. The funeral is Sunday but with the winds we won’t be going and the cousin who called said don’t even attempt to come they don’t expect us to risk it by coming.

Apologies for the next long post - just need to write it all down to clear my head!

Then whilst my wife was having her hair done I had a call from Dad to say the paramedics were with him and wanted him to go to hospital due to a suspected DVT on his calf. I spoke with the paramedic and agreed we would come over and take him as they didn’t want to leave Mum on her own and also didn’t want to take her to hospital with him. We had to take him to a day care ward attached to A&E and that he had been booked in there at the new Birmingham MET hospital.

Well, “booked in” basically just means skipping A&E and having a 4-6 hour wait (someone in the waiting room had been via A&E and now this ward for a total of 12 hours). Eventually a doctor saw him, started planning treatment but then had a bleep from the crash team. So we ended up with another doctor taking over and finally, about 6 hours later, we were discharged with a clot busting injection given, one for us to administer tonight and a prescription for another one for Sunday night. They were happy for me to do it once I said I injected insulin and this injection is similar into the tummy, just a bit longer needle. I will get a call on Monday for him to go for a scan to confirm if it is a clot, but they are fairly sure it is. Apparently the D-dimer result has raised which would also indicate a clot. On Monday we will also have a consultant let us know the ongoing treatment plan.

I called one of my aunts and she very kindly got a taxi to go over to stay with Mum whilst we were at the hospital and we took her home when we got back with Dad at about 11pm. This all just makes me realise how stuck we are as neither Mum nor Dad can really be left alone as they sort of care for each other.

Now I feel guilty about going away on holiday in the future and not being around for these sort of situations. There’s my son and daughter but it doesn’t seem fair this is starting to affect so many lives even though we all pull together as a family without question. I’m an only child so the burden rests with me.

Sorry for the long post! Just wanted to get this off my chest!

Take care everyone!
 
7 for me this morning.

@Eternal422. If they have not done so already, can I suggest that your parents contact their local carer services and get themselves registered as each others carer. The quality of carer services is a bit post code dependent but they should at least get carers assessments, part of which will be doing a bit of planning of how best to handle situations where one of them is out of action. Also, my suggestion is that you ought to get your son and daughter on board for emergencies - providing they are OK with that.
 
Eternal422 said:
4.0 today for me. Amazingly I had my first Unicorn Day yesterday!

Yesterday started with a phone call from Ireland to my wife to say one of her cousins had passed that morning. The funeral is Sunday but with the winds we won’t be going and the cousin who called said don’t even attempt to come they don’t expect us to risk it by coming.

Apologies for the next long post - just need to write it all down to clear my head!

Then whilst my wife was having her hair done I had a call from Dad to say the paramedics were with him and wanted him to go to hospital due to a suspected DVT on his calf. I spoke with the paramedic and agreed we would come over and take him as they didn’t want to leave Mum on her own and also didn’t want to take her to hospital with him. We had to take him to a day care ward attached to A&E and that he had been booked in there at the new Birmingham MET hospital.

Well, “booked in” basically just means skipping A&E and having a 4-6 hour wait (someone in the waiting room had been via A&E and now this ward for a total of 12 hours). Eventually a doctor saw him, started planning treatment but then had a bleep from the crash team. So we ended up with another doctor taking over and finally, about 6 hours later, we were discharged with a clot busting injection given, one for us to administer tonight and a prescription for another one for Sunday night. They were happy for me to do it once I said I injected insulin and this injection is similar into the tummy, just a bit longer needle. I will get a call on Monday for him to go for a scan to confirm if it is a clot, but they are fairly sure it is. Apparently the D-dimer result has raised which would also indicate a clot. On Monday we will also have a consultant let us know the ongoing treatment plan.

I called one of my aunts and she very kindly got a taxi to go over to stay with Mum whilst we were at the hospital and we took her home when we got back with Dad at about 11pm. This all just makes me realise how stuck we are as neither Mum nor Dad can really be left alone as they sort of care for each other.

Now I feel guilty about going away on holiday in the future and not being around for these sort of situations. There’s my son and daughter but it doesn’t seem fair this is starting to affect so many lives even though we all pull together as a family without question. I’m an only child so the burden rests with me.

Sorry for the long post! Just wanted to get this off my chest!

Take care everyone!
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Sounds a bit like OH sister who had blood clots on her lungs which they thought had moved from her leg, she was kept in hospital for just over a week, given oxygen and on anticoagulants which she needs orally for the foreseeable. Lucky it was caught before that stage with your Dad.
 
khskel said:
Morning all 6.8 for me.

Yesterday woke up to a sh one t storm on social media due to our guitarist posting some offensive pictures on line and spent most if the day trying to clean up the mess. No contact with him but someone trying to see him today.

It's bright and sunny here. We need to poop out to get some beeps to go with the haggis.

Have a good day everyone
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I’ve already got my neeps peeled. Looking forward to tonight’s tea. Now, where’s my bagpipes? :rofl:
 
WELL 😱 😱 😱 Been without electricity for 24 hours more or less now around 10:45 yesterday! Storm until last evening around 18:00 when I went to bed it was still blowing! Storm over when I got up this morning but, now heavy snowfall & no idea when power will be back up? My cordless landline phone battery had already died in the night & wasn’t working when I got up! My mobile phone battery had been steadily depleting: had to use the torch sparingly to go to the loo once it got dark around 17:00 yesterday; ate ham & cheese sandwiches yesterday & loads of clothes on under the duvet as no heating either! Called my sister in Ballycastle around 08:00 this morning while I still had battery power but, she had been snowed in since last night! She had power but, not able to get to me. She called my brother on the other side of Ballymoney to me where there’s still power, one side of town has no power & the other side does, & he picked me up so, I’m at his house now! Had a hot breakfast & a hot cup of tea! The snow has just stopped & the sun is shining now! Hopefully the electricity workers are out now fixing power lines which are down all across NI. My phones, phone phone & libre phone, & my iPad are charging & I’m warm from the inside out thanks to hot food: when already cold on the outside & having to eat cold food; the cold is from the inside as well!

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

I woke on BS 7.4 around 7am.

I completely missed The Traitors last night & will hopefully catch it sometime today when the power is back on?
 
Eternal422 said:
4.0 today for me. Amazingly I had my first Unicorn Day yesterday!

Yesterday started with a phone call from Ireland to my wife to say one of her cousins had passed that morning. The funeral is Sunday but with the winds we won’t be going and the cousin who called said don’t even attempt to come they don’t expect us to risk it by coming.

Apologies for the next long post - just need to write it all down to clear my head!

Then whilst my wife was having her hair done I had a call from Dad to say the paramedics were with him and wanted him to go to hospital due to a suspected DVT on his calf. I spoke with the paramedic and agreed we would come over and take him as they didn’t want to leave Mum on her own and also didn’t want to take her to hospital with him. We had to take him to a day care ward attached to A&E and that he had been booked in there at the new Birmingham MET hospital.

Well, “booked in” basically just means skipping A&E and having a 4-6 hour wait (someone in the waiting room had been via A&E and now this ward for a total of 12 hours). Eventually a doctor saw him, started planning treatment but then had a bleep from the crash team. So we ended up with another doctor taking over and finally, about 6 hours later, we were discharged with a clot busting injection given, one for us to administer tonight and a prescription for another one for Sunday night. They were happy for me to do it once I said I injected insulin and this injection is similar into the tummy, just a bit longer needle. I will get a call on Monday for him to go for a scan to confirm if it is a clot, but they are fairly sure it is. Apparently the D-dimer result has raised which would also indicate a clot. On Monday we will also have a consultant let us know the ongoing treatment plan.

I called one of my aunts and she very kindly got a taxi to go over to stay with Mum whilst we were at the hospital and we took her home when we got back with Dad at about 11pm. This all just makes me realise how stuck we are as neither Mum nor Dad can really be left alone as they sort of care for each other.

Now I feel guilty about going away on holiday in the future and not being around for these sort of situations. There’s my son and daughter but it doesn’t seem fair this is starting to affect so many lives even though we all pull together as a family without question. I’m an only child so the burden rests with me.

Sorry for the long post! Just wanted to get this off my chest!

Take care everyone!
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So sorry about this. As you know we’ve been through all this but at least Mr Eggy has siblings to share the burden. It’s so tough on the whole family and whilst I understand your parents are doing their best to be independent the truth is they aren’t. Tough love required I’m afraid. Firstly get onto Adult social services, if they’re able to self fund their care it’ll get sorted soon, MIL was able to, initially, so we got a care package in place quickly. As time went on and she ended up in hospital a few times the hospital communicated with ASS to enhance the package eventually getting carers four times a day. This of course depleted her savings but she got attendance allowance towards it and ended up paying just £100 a month. She didn’t have much left at the end but it was worth it for peace of mind for the family. I wish you good luck.
 
Morning and although up early and walked all dogs after picking them up yesterday still tired so dozed for another 2 hours.
7.2 on waking up and just getting back into routine.
Eternal hope your dad gets sorted with his suspected DVT. By coincidence yesterday I booked an appointment to see my GP just to check out a pain in my calf and they gave me one at 8.30 on Monday.I have had this issue for a few weeks now putting it down to some calf strain as it is not painful and no swelling so was pretty certain is not vascular related.Plus I am on blood thinners anyway and feel OK which as you know is the real worry with clots moving to the lungs etc.
Anyway as it has not gone away I want to get it checked out.
Finally got letter from Accountant re tax returns and both me and my wife will get a little present from HMRC which is always welcome and they tend to come fairly quickly which is nice.
Going out for lunch today and a very quiet w/ end but sorry to hear of others travails and wish you all well.
 
Thanks @Docb , @Leadinglights , @eggyg and @Wendal - we had tried to get a care assessment before having found what seems to be a really good company but at the last minute Dad refused it. I think this time we will have to force the issue as they really need something in place, especially for these sort of situations.
 
Well, over 189,000 homes without power across NI & over 76, looking on the map put up by NIE Northern Ireland Electricity, power lines down it’s going to be slow but, with my devices charging up & at my brother’s house I’ll be ok. My SIL gave me a bag of candles & matches as a lot of things I still haven’t gotten around to replacing since The Great Kitchen Cull of November 2022 & that was one of them! SIL also, suggested getting powerbanks & keeping them charged up for mobile phones!🙄
 
4.9 for me today, so very happy with that and no evening Levemir again, but a lot of red on my graph overnight despite eating a JB about 4am. Slept well though, so not complaining apart from it doesn't look good.

Sorry to hear about your Dad @Eternal422 It is tough. I was a carer for my mother for a few years before she died and we had quite a few of those emergency hospital visits which even then, were many hours, sometimes all night, on an uncomfortable trolley with florescent overhead lights glaring down, just waiting and waiting and trying to make Mam as comfortable as possible. Thankfully I lived next door to my parents so could be there at a moment's notice and Dad was reasonably fit, but it really is challenging to manage it.

@khskel Hope you manage to straighten things out and calm the waters. Rock stars eh!!
 
Morning all, down in the fours again today with a 4.4 think it must be when I have a restless night and burn up my sugar content.

Have a good day everyone and stay healthy.
 
@rebrascora - thank you. We live about an hour away which adds to logistics of things. Almost thinking that we are at the point of needing a care home for them. Mum seems ok with this and has said a few times perhaps they should. Dad sort of agrees but doesn’t want to go. Dad particularly is not a very sociable person, even less so nowadays and I think he would hate being in a care home. But we have to do something as this isn’t that sustainable for everyone involved.
 
Good morning a Unicorn to start the weekend off for me
yesterday was 6.3 looks like I forgot to press the blue button
and have missed pages of posts

congrats to the :star: HS producers @eggyg @MeeTooTeeTo (yesterday)

my condolences to @eggyg & family
anyone affected by yesterday’s storm hope some normality resumes :thankyou: very soon

there seems to be pages of posts here that I’ve not caught up with
Mrs @goodybags has just reminded me I’ve loads to do today
so rather than sitting here looking through them I need to get moving Now

TC everybody 😎
 
The power lines down have actually increased to 99 now & it’s still blowing a bit intermittently with snow still falling in some places. No word yet on any work being done in my postcode area so, I’m going to be at my brothers all day, I think? Just watching The Traitors now! Had my tresiba at midday there! My BS is running very high today because of the anxiety & stress but, just let it run high today & get things back to normal slowly tomorrow! BS went from 7.4 upon waking to 16.7 by the time I had a hot breakfast around 09:30 and I put in the max NR of 60: didn’t dare put in more; BS is still in the 20’s but, wobbling up & down quite a bit! I dithered about tresiba dose & stuck in just a bit more +2 to 70 just for today & stick it back to 68 tomorrow? My BS was running high & wobbling quite a bit yesterday too when I was getting more stressed about battery percentages left on my devices so, stress is definitely affecting my BS! Just scanned, while I’m posting anyway, & at last breakfast BS is coming down 12:25 BS 17.9!
 
Good day all - it's quite nice here again, sun peeping through a light overcast and not a breath of wind. There was a bit of a blow on Thursday night/early hours of Friday but we have mostly missed storm Eowen.

7.2 this morning. I can't seem to get out of the 7s.

Yesterday the fruit and veg wholesalers had sold out of Seville Oranges and said basically they were finished and they could get no more. I think we both heaved sighs of relief at not having to make marmalade (such a lot of work). Anyway we then went to Morrisons to get some lardons for my Normandy Pork dish and what's the first thing we see? 1K bags of Seville Oranges!!! Yeah OK we got 2. Morrisons had no Pectin, 2 assistants didn't even know what it was. We decamped to Sainsbury's which is in upheaval whilst they re-arrange the whole store.... found the Pectin with the sugar in it's usual spot, but then took what seemed like a magical mystery tour to find the low sugar squash we prefer. In the end we found it in what used to be the sweetie aisle. Ho hum, guess what we are doing tomorrow?

Today we're off to meet friends in town.

@Eternal42 I do sympathise, I am also an only child. My Dad passed when I was 24. In the end my mum went into a care home as we had a hotel and I was working 18 hour days 7 days a week. She went willingly enough, but I know she was apprehensive. However, in the end she loved it and thought of it as home. They were indeed very kind to all their residents and treated them very well. She passed away before we finally sold the hotel.

@Lanny hope you get some electricity soon!
 
A high of 6.4 earlier when I had my basal. I then fell back asleep and awoke at 10.45am, still tired now!

A moderate breakfast of blueberries and Greek yogurt, shouldn't spike me too much, but there's always a surprise.
 
I suspect it could be tomorrow? 240,000 homes no power now & still 99 power lines down but, 30 of them are dangerous, defined as sparking, & those will be top of the list! Still no word on my area! But, I’ll eat lunch one my BS hits, 8.5 & it been dropping steadily & down to 11.8 just now! Go home as II’m warmer & devices fully charged up! Have candles & matches too for tonight! I’ll get back to bed after lunch as I’m tired too now! No more posts on here today as still no power & wi fi but, I’m fine so, don’t worry about me too much!
 
Eternal422 said:
@rebrascora - thank you. We live about an hour away which adds to logistics of things. Almost thinking that we are at the point of needing a care home for them. Mum seems ok with this and has said a few times perhaps they should. Dad sort of agrees but doesn’t want to go. Dad particularly is not a very sociable person, even less so nowadays and I think he would hate being in a care home. But we have to do something as this isn’t that sustainable for everyone involved.
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@Eternal422 if your dad isn't keen on a care home, could a residential "home" be suitable. The one my mum is on the waiting list for (although she is now saying she's not sure she wants to go) has apartments so they can retain some independence but also have carers/alarms if needed. I'm not sure whether this would be an option for you.
 
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