Author: LT

As you’ve probably guessed from the recent posts, Mum is still in SACU and still doing rehab but there’s broad agreement her progress has slowed and it won’t be long before more permanent arrangements will need to be made. Discussions have already begun with the centre and with her allied health team. Mum’s options are…

As you all know, Mum loves entertaining. In July she, with the help of her sister, put on a morning tea for the staff of SACU. The food was supplied by Mocha Mecha (Shop 2/ 237 Riverside Blv Douglas QLD 4814, try the pink sandwich-shaped lamingtons – they’re possibly the main reason Mum hasn’t met her…

Apologies for not being the most dedicated blogger lately. Thankfully I have this afternoon off and will be updating the blog with all the news from the last few weeks. It’s most important to let you know that Mum is doing very well at the moment. Her TIAs seem to have stopped and SACU have switched her…

Sorry to be the bearer once again of bad news. Mum’s TIAs are continuing and, after having quite a bad one in physio on Wednesday, she’s now been referred to a neurologist. I hasten to say these “turns” are consistent with TIAs, however the number she’s having is concerning. This is why the doctors are…

One of the reasons Mum came out of the Independent Living Unit was because she was complaining of headaches and had some new stroke-like symptoms, such as slurred speech and numbness. The good news is that she has had a CT scan and there’s no sign of her having had a new major stroke. The bad…

As some of you already know, Mum’s independent living trial finished early on the weekend as she required more medical support than could be provided in a one-on-one carer situation. Mum was in a great deal of pain and had to be moved back to Bed 42 on Sunday. Part of the independent living was…

At the family meeting a few weeks ago, Mum’s Allied Health team made the decision that Mum’s rehab progress had flattened out and so it was time for her to transition. This week, Mum and Dad moved into an Independent Living Unit at SACU to trial a permanent carer relationship. The units are a part…

Today, Mum updated the poem about the patient call button that she wrote in Mornington so it applied to the unit here in Townsville (that I’ve dubbed SACU). She’s called it Ode to the Toot as the patient bell here sounds more like a subtle tooting than the loud chime in Mornington. She’s also working…

Mum can successfully transfer into and out of Dad’s car! Such an amazing achievement, we decided to put it to the test today and take her for a spin in Dad’s CRV. Of course, Dad’s car is higher than your average vehicle and that’s the only reason Mum can do a pivot in and out. Getting into and out…

As an addition to my last post, it now appears that Mum does indeed have a “broken bum”. Mum was apparently in a lot of pain in physio yesterday so the radiologist looked at her x-rays again and has now concluded she has a hairline fracture of the pubic ramus. So that last big fall was, in…