My Mother struggled with a bad cough many months ago, this has happened before and a quick course of antibiotics sorted it out with no ongoing problems. This time, because antibiotics are not now handed out easily, she has suffered one or more fractured ribs due to her coughing. She has now been diagnosed with advanced osteoporosis and her rib fractures are the result of this. She is in intense pain and unable to find anything that eases it. Her doctor prescribed morphine patches which did nothing to ease the pain but caused her to suffer dreadful constipation, Mum decided the pain of her ribs was much lesser than the pain of her constipation. Mum was also prescribed cocodamol (not sure if I have spelt this correctly) but this gave Mum hallucinations which terrified her. Mum is now staying in bed for most of the day because that's where it hurts less, she is not eating well and says her appetite has completely gone. It is breaking my heart and I don't know how I can help her. I had heard that once you reach old age the UK medical institution is no longer interested and I must admit that this seems to be true as far as my Mum is concerned as nobody seems to be interested in helping her. Can anyone please give me some advice/
being a right moany pain in the proverbial
The Republic of Ireland and their tensions with migrants.