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Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:57 am
Hi everyone 
Thought I'd come in and introduce myself while I'm waiting on a Doctor coming out.
Along with my Husband and Son, I care for my Dad. He fell and broke his neck in June 2012 and is now Tetraplegic.
He has been home from hospital for 4 months now and strangely I feel like we are old hands at this, it's hard to remember life before the accident.
My Dad is 78 and was fitter and in better health than probably the rest of the family, he looked after himself well, good diet, he jogged, used an excersise bike, dumbells, you name it. I've never known him to ask anyone to do anything for him and this is pretty tough on him.
On the whole he makes it easy to care for him, which surprised us all. He does have his moments mind you but they don't last too long.
His catheter was blocked last night and made him quite unwell, the DN recatheterised him this morning but his urine output since has been very very low so he was rechtheterised again tonight and still not parting with much at all. Because of the risk of Dysreflexia, it's possible they will admit him to hospital tonight and he is getting a bit down about it, fingers crossed that doesn't happen.
Thought I'd come in and introduce myself while I'm waiting on a Doctor coming out.Along with my Husband and Son, I care for my Dad. He fell and broke his neck in June 2012 and is now Tetraplegic.
He has been home from hospital for 4 months now and strangely I feel like we are old hands at this, it's hard to remember life before the accident.
My Dad is 78 and was fitter and in better health than probably the rest of the family, he looked after himself well, good diet, he jogged, used an excersise bike, dumbells, you name it. I've never known him to ask anyone to do anything for him and this is pretty tough on him.
On the whole he makes it easy to care for him, which surprised us all. He does have his moments mind you but they don't last too long.
His catheter was blocked last night and made him quite unwell, the DN recatheterised him this morning but his urine output since has been very very low so he was rechtheterised again tonight and still not parting with much at all. Because of the risk of Dysreflexia, it's possible they will admit him to hospital tonight and he is getting a bit down about it, fingers crossed that doesn't happen.
