Hi, I'm new here, so please make allowances for me jumping in on this topic. My wife has MS and is literally on the floor right now waiting for an ambulance.
This will be the first time I've called an ambulance to get her off the floor as she has possibly injured her shoulder getting there.
My question really is how often can you expect an ambulance to come and sort out a situation like this?
My wife's record is fourteen unintended visits to the floor in one day, (that was a particularly bad day when she got her meds wrong) yesterday it was only five which is not unusual, these are rarely actual falls, she just slides off chairs or anything else it's possible to slide off of.
I can't continue to lift her off the floor this much, I'm retired now but have done reasonably physical work all of my life (carpenter) and I know when my back has had enough and that is now, it takes longer for those little tell-tale niggles to disappear these days.
I just can't believe that an ambulance is going to come multiple times in one day.
This will be the first time I've called an ambulance to get her off the floor as she has possibly injured her shoulder getting there.
My question really is how often can you expect an ambulance to come and sort out a situation like this?
My wife's record is fourteen unintended visits to the floor in one day, (that was a particularly bad day when she got her meds wrong) yesterday it was only five which is not unusual, these are rarely actual falls, she just slides off chairs or anything else it's possible to slide off of.
I can't continue to lift her off the floor this much, I'm retired now but have done reasonably physical work all of my life (carpenter) and I know when my back has had enough and that is now, it takes longer for those little tell-tale niggles to disappear these days.
I just can't believe that an ambulance is going to come multiple times in one day.