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Made in Yorkshire.... a HUGE thankyou for your post. The vile client you describe is exactly what I'm talking about. I can only think that some people who need care and are nasty were always that way in all parts of their lives.We wouldn't associate with them normally.
Exactly! Despite the fact that carers shouldn't have favourites, and shouldn't pick and choose, it's human nature really, but you cannot show it ....
It amazes me that managers do not give their staff travelling time - someone has to lose, either the client doesn't get their allotted time, or the carer is on overtime, and should be paid for it .... I also find with my carers, that they may be with me for one call, then have to go to a client possibly even as far as 20 miles away, then come back to my area for tea or bed calls! I don't actually think the co-ordinators have a clue about the geography of the area - mostly young women ... I could do that job with my eyes shut!
I wonder though about MS - there seems to be a bit of a theme going on here? MS is generally diagnosed when you are younger (I have now been tested 3 times since I was 19 as I do have symptoms and nerve damage) I remember back to that time (I am almost 61 now) and my Dad asking me if I would like to go to Canada on holiday and I responded with 'I am not in a wheelchair yet'. He said 'you know too much'! That was in the days before computers and the like, but I knew what they were testing for. I suppose that if you re younger and you have all that facing you, it must be a challenge. But, also, the brain controls both conscious and unconscious actions by sending messages to all parts of the body. Different parts of the brain control different things, and the frontal lobe is responsible for the control of emotions and their outward expression. Regardless of your personality, nerve damage in this region of the brain can affect the way people feel or react, and can cause them to behave in a way that seems out of character.
I wish I could still DO something and have a purpose. I do what I can online and am in many support groups for my multitude of medical issues and help where I can; and I fight like a bulldog with a wasp to get Govt and the media interested in the dreadful way the disabled are treated in the UK, but really its not enough ...