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Date: 20 November 2006 09:42:52
We are entitled to some extra care for the next six weeks at least, so we have arranged for two care agencies to provide sitters at "tea-and-homework" time for the Smudgelets so I can be with them in our home instead of next door.
Wait for it.... the care agencies are not supposed to administer pain relief!!
Finally, after long negotiations, the one agency had agreed to administer the morphine that comes in dosed vials. All they do is take the top off and help him pour it in his mouth. They are not prepared to give him the morphine that comes in a bottle, even if I pour it out in advance in a lidded cup.
The other agency has also agreed. They will give it to him from a lidded cup which I have poured out in advance from the bottle. They are not prepared to give him morphine from the vials.
However - the good news is that they will do the ironing while they're there. Not only Dad's but the whole family's!!!
In other good news, his brand new wheelchair has arrived. YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Shame the weather's too bad for him to use it!