My wish tonight would be for the NHS to sort itself out and provide patients with what they need.
My husband is now 10 weeks in hospital following a severe stroke. I have never known him so low. He has been in a Stroke Rehab Unit for 6 of those weeks and we were told he would get loads more therapy than the main hospital could provide. This is not the case!
Some days he sits 9 hours in a wheelchair doing nothing. Another day he might get half an hour’s physio or speech therapy. Weekends they get nothing at all. He has now insisted on coming home as soon as equipment can be delivered and carers organised because he cannot bear it any longer. 😢
My wish is to be able to sleep during the night, when we're meant to sleep!! I have tried using Nytol but I don't feel it gives a restful sleep (more like a drugged sleep) so I've started taking Magnesium Glycinate. I have had a couple of nights of 'reasonable' sleep but this afternoon, after a morning of teaching tai chi and then shopping, I fell asleep for nearly two hours! So much for a good night's sleep tonight!
They’re hard to come by GG. I’m on Pregabalin at the moment but I can only take a low dose because of unacceptable side effects. That’s the problem, anything that actually reduces pain seems to have unacceptable side effects.
A call to say DH will be out of hospital tomorrow.
Best wishes to you and your DH Mollygo. It truly awful when one's partner is away from home due to health problems. The worry & the dreadful feeling of a sort of empty home is rotten. I hope he returns to you very soon.💕