Here with yet another rant/has anyone else experienced this? This one is especially for all those more introverted carers out there …
This week has been another week from hell, after Dad has spent most of the past month in hospital following diagnosis of severe older person/medication induced rash (won’t say the name of condition in case it sets off a trigger), dehydration and 2 falls in one week.
On the plus side, he is now getting a social worker allocated and has had wraparound carers in for most of the week, in addition to his newly allocated regular carer 4 times daily but is now in a temporary care placement while physiotherapist goes in to rehabilitate as he can’t walk due to many hours spent in hospital bed.
The regular carer is marvellous - caring, pleasant, professional and respectful - he loves Dad and Dad loves him, which is great. Not loving the wraparound carers so much - grateful for their help, but honestly some of them are just disrespectful and thoughtless considering they are in someone else’s house.
Arrived at Dad’s yesterday to find one of them had blocked up Dad’s upstairs toilet and I had to clean it. If I was in someone else’s home I would never have left the toilet in that state. Others have wrenched the handle off the the door of the downstairs loo 3 times and have had to keep fixing it back on. One left her empty soft drink bottle on the lounge floor, an empty toilet roll on the toilet floor and dumped a sanitary item in Dad’s laundry bin and then today had the cheek to tell me whilst I was cleaning that I should be cleaning up AFTER Dad had gone into the care home. Last night one of them spent the evening talking loudly on his phone whilst Dad was trying to watch TV. I know I sound old fashioned but aren’t their families teaching these people respect?
To top it all off Dad is now in the loudest care home, a huge TV blasting EastEnders and staff who are shouting because they are trying to be heard over the TV. Dad will be there for a few weeks - not sure how my nerves are going to cope with all the ‘people -ing’ and noise anymore.