Decisions taken away from me

The decision about when to go over more or less got taken away from me when I rang Edna and she sounded very poorly and said she felt poorly so I went straight over to see her.

In the event when I got there she wasnt as bad as she sounded. She was very breathless when she answered the phone and I think that made her sound worse than she was. But I dont think she had had mch to drink this morning apart from the water with her tablets. There was a cold cup of tea on her trolley and she said she had tipped her water into it - and it had onyl been half a cup anyway according to her. So I made her a cup of tea and filled her glass with water again. I am sure she isnt drinking enough in this heat.

Then being a nosey parker I did a quick check round to make sure she had enough of everything and found she had no Rivastigmine . She said she had talen one this morning - and that probably is true becasause I am sure Dom Care would have contacted me if she had run out earlier. So I rang the pharmacy and after rreally worrying me by saying they didnt have a prescription for her, they found they DID have one. Unfortunatley they didnt have the Rivastigmine. Edna had one blister pack in use and one full one so the full one has gone back to the pharmacy and will be topped up with Rivastigmine on Monday. Then the one in use will be taken back and topped up and and Rivastigmine added to that as well.

They were very apologetic - and I do understand that with prescriptions coming from 2 places the system is more likely to go wrong. They didnt attempt to make excuses - and it was their idea to top up the in use MDS once she has a complete one on hand. The trouble is she has a monthly prescription from the GP and a 3 monthly prescription from the Elderly care paople - and of course they wont run out at the same time so everything is always out of synch. And an MDS system depends on everything being in synch.

OK it was easily corrected - but I could do without it. I am wondering if I need to take charge of her repeats myself although I cant see anyway I can at the moment.

But however apologetic they are, Edna is still going to be without Rivastigmone over the weekend. I have left a note in the Domcare book so they know the situation is under control.

We did have a chat about Alan and I am not sure she does realise the date - but she said she would be OK tomorrow. However she may have thought I was referring to her health not the date.

We alos discussed her going out -not that it will do any good. I got quite blunt and said there was no point in her moaning about not being able to get out if she didnt do anything to help herself like getting a wheelchair.

I have said I will go and se her on Wednesday to show her the new car. i think I need to make Wednesday my regular day for a midweek visit just to make sure I keep on top of things.