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Penny S
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Second time sent home before being ready to be sent home, when they know that there are problems with provision of a proper environment for care there.
Followed by not being able to re-admit when a problem re-appears.
And it isn't just one person. It's happening all over.
The people who lived through the war and kept the country going, and helped to set up the NHS are being dumped.
If I a) believed in curses, and b) believed it was right to invoke them, I would be scrawling names on lead and slinging them into the Thames by Parliament.
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Fundamentally, this is NHS underfunding. So it is the politicians. The workers in the service are still wonderful, trying their hardest to do what they can.
Maggie is rapidly becoming the third worst PM in my lifetime. In the future, if we have one, we will look back at this point in time and ask what the fuck we were doing.
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Alan Cresswell
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Fundamentally, this is NHS underfunding. So it is the politicians. The workers in the service are still wonderful, trying their hardest to do what they can.
Not just NHS underfunding. It's also underfunding of care services in general - ideally there would be adequate care in place that it is possible to free up hospital beds by allowing elderly patients home knowing that there is a decent care plan, with associated resources, in place.
Which is also down to politicians.
And, again the professionals in the care services are also wonderful, doing all they can with the little that is given them.
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Penny S
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Absolutely the politicians. Who know they don't need to bother about the votes of the end of life patients...
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As a former ambulanceperson, I have had the unenviable task of taking home from hospital people who really have not been ready for it. My crewmate and I were once assaulted and abused - only verbally, fortunately - by a man who had been called out to let his mother into her house (at 3am). He apologised, and we (of course) were quite understanding - the poor man was clearly distressed and distraught on Mum's behalf.
On another occasion, we took home a lady with a full leg plaster, only to find that her 'care package' was not due to start until the following day (we had been told that the carers would meet her at home - in fact, we were let in by a kindly neighbour). Given that the patient lived in a town house, consisting mostly of stairs, we took the decision (with her consent) to return her directly to the ward from whence she came. By God's grace, her former bed was still unfilled (we didn't hang about on this job...)!
As others have said, it's the result of underfunding across the board. If only politicians could suffer the same worry, indignity, and general bloody-awfulness some of these poor people have to put up with.
(BTW, by 'Maggie', I assume Our Darling Mrs. May is meant, no? If so, agreed 100%. An asylum is where she belongs, hopefully with no staff available to wipe her bum, or bring her a cuppa tea)
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Schroedinger's cat
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Yes it is underfunding of the whole care system. That was me being lazy.
And no, Maggie is Mrs Thatcher. I think Cameron and May are even worse in order. They both deserve to end up dying in agony, slowly, covered in their own excrement.
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Penny S
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Shivering from unidentifiable causes though wrapped in umpteen layers of warm clothes.
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Bishops Finger
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None of which are theirs (or fit properly).
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Penny S
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I realise, and apologise for, that I over emphasised the gender of the victims of the failings in NHS care. This was because a) an elderly lady is in my mind most at the moment, b) when in the hospital I only saw elderly ladies because the ward (thank goodness) was not mixed, c) Old ladies tend to outlive old men, and d) artistic effect.
But it was wrong. I am sure that old men are made victims as much.
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I just think Penny has a mighty big heart to be getting outraged on behalf of a woman who has caused her all sorts of bother. Shows how nice she is.
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Bishops Finger
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I used to get outraged, too, but (alas, perhaps) those of us in The Front Line have to cultivate a certain amount of detachment...whilst trying to retain a degree of compassion and charity.
Men are indeed victims, too, but statistically (AFAIK) elderly women are in the majority in these awful situations.
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Is there a reason why aged women suffer more than aged men?
Might it be because women are normally younger than their male partners, but live longer, and thus (on average) can act as carers, while when it is their turn they are truly on their own?
Or is there intrinsic gender-based discrimination?
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Bishops Finger
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It seems quite often the case with older couples that the wife outlives her husband, rather than that there is any gender-based discrimination.
That's anecdotal, BTW, from my own work experience - dunno whether it's borne out by stats.
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Twilight
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I think one factor might be that older women were raised not to raise their voices, and make a fuss. Nurses and doctors know this, so, even if subconsciously, they probably aren't quite as "careful" as they are with the men.
When my father was in his final six months of mini strokes and dementia, we had to move him to three different nursing homes because the powers that be just wouldn't put up with his cranky, demanding behavior. One supervisor told me straight up that she didn't like to take old men because so many of them were like that.
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Unfortunately underfunding of such services will continue to increase as the population ages. This is a reality of current population demographics, and I'm not sure anyone has wrapped their heads around the solution - and this is only the start of the increasing problem. Tax/levies will increase beyond politically acceptable limits very quickly in the coming 15-20 years, and politicians see the problem, but not the solution.
Tragically it is individuals who will miss out and put at risk.
For the last 2 years I've managed a resthome/hospital/dementia unit and I can tell you there isn't a huge margin: approximately 95% occupancy is break even in NZ, and most staff are getting much more than the minimum wage. Nursing ratios are incredibly low. And providers are continually squeezed by the funder - annual increases in funding have been pegged at less than the inflation rate for several years. The private providers are running care facilities in order to give them leverage to own retirement villages where there is money to be made (effectively the money comes from real estate, and healthcare is a side interest to give legitimacy to the real estate business.)
I don't know the answers here either ("throw more money at it" is also short sighted). But our respective populations need to have an adult conversation about the expectations, requirements and constraints before too many more people fall into the cracks. A conversation that is probably political suicide and so avoided...
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Penny S: quote:
Absolutely the politicians. Who know they don't need to bother about the votes of the end of life patients...
...and foolishly forget that most end of life patients have family and friends who will outlive them long enough to cast a vote at the next election.
Time to write to our MPs. Not that writing to mine will do much good, as he's one of these hard Brexiteer/let the NHS burn types, but it will make me feel like I'm doing something.
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Penny S
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Originally posted by Twilight:
I just think Penny has a mighty big heart to be getting outraged on behalf of a woman who has caused her all sorts of bother. Shows how nice she is.
Well, thank you. Not sure about the conclusion, though. I seem to have developed an alt personality who is capable of behaving like a carer very nicely, but I'm not sure I am wholly responsible for her (the alt personality, that is.)
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Penny S
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And for the correction of the original bias, a horror story from east Kent. A man who had been in hospital for several weeks with a lung complaint, discharged, able according to the physio to walk 8 metres, but who could not stand. Also able to breathe properly, but unable to eat or drink when he got home. The family called an ambulance, and he was re-admitted. His wife could only kiss his forehead, as he was filthy, not having been washed. He died the following morning, without seeing his family again.
There is legal action being taken.
His daughter says that if they had been told that he was being sent home to die, that would have been different, but they were told he was well enough to go home.
This is extreme, but so, so wrong.
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Our city last year had a lovely gent who was discharged from hospital to a previous address ( if remember serves). The poor discharged patient tried to find his very confused way home, only to end up in a canal. An early morning passerby found him......mercifully alive....
As far back as twelve years ago, we would have bed managers prowling the wards at night looking for patients to discharge. But frosty (and older) charge nurses or ward sisters sent them packing.
I know.
We all understand.
It's beds that are needed.
But being discharged in the middle of the night is no joke.
Not for the patient... the poor nurses who have to carry out the wishes from on high....other patients in the wards who are inevitable woken up as well....the family or friends who are inevitably summoned from their sleep to pick up a patient and still go into work the next day....neighbours who are woken up by vehicles coming and going at ridiculous hours....ambulance personel who are asked to take obviously ill people home.....GPs who are left to pick up the pieces afterwards....
Would that all MPs were banned from using private medical care. That might see the start of a bit of a shift in thinking.
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Penny S
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Given that by the frequency of thses events, every MP must have at least one constituent who suffers like this, if not more, it should be possible to make every single one of them aware of what is going on. Over, and over again. In detail. From every member of the patient's family.
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Ethne Alba
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Sadly.....and perfectly understandably, maybe the family's are caught up in the actual life of their relative?
Maybe the family find it hard to go over and over the story?
With the hospital should one complain to PALS, (Patient Advice and Liaison Service) or should complaints go to the ward or higher up, the chief executive?
Does the family go straight to the press?
The MP?
This all takes time.
Having been on the end of a discharge at 4.45am myself...i quite understand why some people have had enough and just want a bit of peace and quiet.
That's not to say that waking people up during the night to be discharged is acceptable.
It's not.
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Penny S
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I suspect there is some reliance by those responsible on that sort of feeling in those affected.
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There's another issue lurking under the surface here: how do you deal with the lies?
He's much better and able to go home: no he isn't (he shouldn't have gone home - guess what - back in 6 hours). Family told off for bringing him in
Come and pick him up now, he has everything he needs: a 4 hour wait at the hospital for his pills.
He's comfortable (said on phone to relative): son at bedside removing bottle of wee from table where it sits next to the uneaten food. Man sitting in a pool of wee where he 's been for over an hour - as per other patient observation. Staff standing at the nurse station talking about their night out.
We've checked her out she's ok and we'll find respite for her: dead 12 hrs later from the erupting cancers they had omitted to mention as seen on the xrays.
I can't speak to you now, I'm in the operating theatre. No Mr Consultant you can't speak to me because you're in the corridor of the shop area buying your lunch.
All of these happened.
I can understand the sympathy for those who carry out all sorts of jobs in the hospital - my wife and all 3 daughters work/have worked in the NHS - but injustice won't be stopped unless and until people on the ground say "no more." Mrs M finally left when she realised that to remain honest she's be raising incident report forms as soon as she walked in the ward door. She simply couldn't take the attitude of senior staff including the Chief Exec who said that answering bells was more important than people who had fallen down.
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By the way be very careful how you complain: always have a witness to any conversation, preferably record it on your mobile.
I'm aware of people who have been removed from the hospital under the "we don't tolerate aggression etc towards staff" for simply voicing valid concerns about treatment.
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Penny S
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The charities which can help can only help when they get referrals from hospitals. So we've been failed by the Red Cross and the Sally Army, despite the house not being livable at the moment. D's state not being medical - in some indefinable sense that I can't see, we can't take her to A&E again.
I haven't slept as I'm looking forward (in the sense that it is ahead of me) to a day enforced in with D.
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Penny S
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She was given an appointment at the Older Persons Assessment Unit for next week, at 9.30 in the morning, which would be too early for her at the best of times, but when she is 22 miles away, and the driving would be in the rush hour, is impossible. so it has been changed to a date in March - if this is the assessment to find her a placement somewhere, I am stuck for weeks.
Still, today's meal went down well. Cheesy bread-and-butter pudding using leftover French bread and cheese from KCL chaplaincy, chocolate custard with mini meringue sprinkles, and raspberry and rose profiteroles Waitrose had ordered too many of for Tuesday. Enough of the main for tomorrow as well - I rather over did it. There was a lot of loaf. And cheese.
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Penny S
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We continue unsupported. I am reluctant to engage on the "I am 71, and may be considered in some ways vulnerable as well. Please can I have support to not have to keep on doing caring work?" road. Superstitiously, I feel that using that tactic may rebound. I have been fit so far. I don't want to self fulfil something like that. But I am not feeling well. Nor is D's son.
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A dreadful situation. I know this is Hell, but ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
I sympathise with your thoughts about being superstitious, and perhaps not wanting some sort of rebound, or Deus ex Machina to occur, but the Gordian Knot does sometimes, for everyone's sake, need cutting.
Not sure where I'm going with this thought, but I hope YSWIM.
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Penny S
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The surgery has found an electrician.
We are not sure that even if we get the house working again, D will be able to live there independently. Her change has been so sudden, mobility, engagement with things and life in general, are not what they were at Christmas.
YSWIM?
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Bishops Finger
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Sorry - internet shorthand for 'You See What I Mean'...
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Penny S
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I did run a search on it - but it kept telling me about swimming lessons!
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Penny S
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The social workers are apparently having difficulty finding a placement for D while her house becomes habitable, and have started to make noises about my place again. She says that I am to say no because it is a cheek!
Well done D. My county social workers say I have every right to say no, as well.
I am, too, an old lady - or I would have been thought to be one back when I was a girl.
Can social workers be guilty of elder abuse?
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Definitely!
I think that sometimes social workers and others in the care industry consider the needs of the person whom they are tasked to help, without reference to the needs and vulnerabilities of the family or other carers.
We had a nurse at the home where my brother with Parkinson's lives, suggest a family member might take him when he was acting out. Before he had reached that stage he came to stay with me for a week and that convinced me that neither of us would benefit from us living together.
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Penny S
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So, D is fit enough for discharge, which is essential for her safety because of the possibility of infection in the hospital.
Today! I rush round to make the final arrangements reducing my bedroom to a storage area with a gap to get to the bed and my clothes.
Then a call. She must be registered with my doctors' before they can prepare the discharge notes. So not today. Rush round to surgery to fill in form. They have had a call from the hospital, but need her details. Fill in form. Not sure that it is the right form for me to sign. Form is put into tray to be dealt with.
Stop rushing round. Hang out bedlinen in sun, have afternoon snooze.
Phone call from hospital from D's son, who was supposed to take the surgery details in. They had had been able to phone the surgery before I went in with D's details. Got details off internet, as they could have done.
Fun continues.
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Today's allowance of fun. Dropped M off to go to the hospital, then over to my niece to deliver eggs for her and her daughter. Rush back through the rush hour to get back before the discharging transport, which is aiming for between 5 and 6. At 5.59, I get a call from M, they missed the transport as they weren't directed to the right place to meet it. There was a wait of anything up to 90 minutes, but it could be almost any minute. They didn't dare to start eating a sandwich, just in case.
It gave me time for the final tittivation, and to go out to supply a face cloth. And then wait. And do the prepping for the meal. And wait. And start to worry if I should be listening to the news. (D saw what happened on Westminster Bridge.) I rang the mobile, but it was off.
Then I had a call, almost immediately. Leaving the hospital at about 8.30. checked on Google Maps and TomTom the ETA, about an hour later. Tried to ring back to tell the driver under no circumstances to follow the satnav when I saw the planned route. Mobile not on again.
Started the meal cooking. Watched a bit of TV. Started this message, and the doorbell rang. Arrived one hour and ten minutes after leaving, having followed another route, with another under no circumstances lane on it.
Fed everyone. D does not want to go to the bedroom I have prepared for her tonight, though she was a bit happier when I told her about the mattress protector. The hospital has discharged her without any pads or pants for incontinence. Fortunately I have some from her earlier stay.
We have no idea when the District Nurse will be coming, as discharge was very hasty.
But, D is so much better, so much in control of her thinking, so much more alert. It's brilliant what they have done.
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The community nurses have been and redressed her legs, and arranged a surgery appointment for next Wednesday. Nothing more frequent. It seems very haphazard - no advance warning. I was out making a private call on my mobile to get help with the cooker issue.
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Previously, on Harrowing Tales of PennyS:
Our centralized single-payer health care system has flaws! Important flaws that can be Harrowing!
...and now, a reaction from a sane person living in Trump's 'Merica:
Well, fuck?
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Penny S
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Wrong. It isn't the health system that has flaws. It is the social care system, which is not single payer, which is run locally by councils which have had their budgets cut by central government in such a way that authorities which are likely not to vote Conservative, ie have less well off residents, get less money, despite greater needs. Local care homes are partially funded by charging means tested patients more than the money paid by the authorities, and the means test kicks in at a low threshold, so it leeches off people who are not well off. In other words, it bears a lot of resemblance to the US "system".
The distinction between health and social needs is not drawn well, so that mental health issues, such as being completely doolally about the state of one's house is not seen as an illness.
This is not a fault of the NHS, not in any way. So bloody shut up.
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Wrong. It isn't the health system that has flaws. It is the social care system
Oh my! You have a social care system! In the US, mental health is primarily handled by the penal fucking system. I'm not saying you are wrong to complain about the flaws in the system, because obviously it should be better. I'm saying that you're complaining to the wrong fucking people. Partially because there's nothing most of us can do about it, but mostly because you've hashed it to fucking death and I can't make myself even pretend to care any fucking more.
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So bloody shut up.
You. Fucking. First.
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RooK... you may be an Admin, but that does not justify foul language directed at a lady who is obviously distressed at the situation in which she finds herself.
Yes, she has taken up server-space, but I think she needs to sound off to release the pressure. Please cut her some slack!?
Be nice... please?
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Nice? RooK? In hell?
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He doesn't need to splatter his post with 'F' words... sarcasm alone should suffice if he wants to be his RooKy self... most men have the decency to not swear at women, even in 'Hell'.
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... and I can't make myself even pretend to care any fucking more.
Dude, if I can keep myself from moving the cancer thread out of Hell and into All Saints, you can avail yourself of the scroll function on your device and just move the fuck on.
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Originally posted by Meerkat:
He doesn't need to splatter his post with 'F' words... sarcasm alone should suffice if he wants to be his RooKy self... most men have the decency to not swear at women, even in 'Hell'.
Aren't you adorable. Fall down a well and die, you sexist piece of shit.
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Dude, if I can keep myself from moving the cancer thread out of Hell and into All Saints, you can avail yourself of the scroll function on your device and just move the fuck on.
Let's just settle this by acknowledging that you are clearly a better person than I am. I've been scrolling past the PennySification of the Difficult Relatives thread, and added further spins to most of this PennySpecific thread. But seeing the thread devolve into just PennyStatic blogging posts to nobody seemed ripe for some snark.
But you're right, I should just let poor, feeble PennyS blather on without resorting to my own honest expressions when told that I should not speak. My challenges to becoming a better person are many. We should meet up for some constructive spankings.
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It should be painfully obvious, even to the meanest intelligence, that it is possible to find oneself in hell by dint of a situation and to need to speak from that situation in an unedited fashion. Hence the presence of the cancer and difficult relatives threads, and indeed this one. It is not, to all except the most dickish mentality, necessary to be flaming anything constantly, or even to be ranting in a notably coherent fashion, in order for hell to be the right place to do it.
Hell for venting; All Saints for advice.
Simple enough, surely?
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Boogie
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Fair enough Thunderbunk, but Meercat was asking folks not to swear in hell ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Penny S
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Thanks RooK for your frank assessment of my personality. Perhaps you would like to visit sometime and assess my guest as well.
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Spike
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Originally posted by ThunderBunk:
Hell for venting; All Saints for advice.
Simple enough, surely?
Erm, no. Read the board description as that explains the purpose of Hell very clearly. Simple enough, surely?
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Gee D
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Trying to wrest this thread back to the topic, we find it extraordinary that the social workers could just foist this very elderly woman upon Penny S - who tells us that she herself is getting on. What is the power that permits that?
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