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Category Archives: Health
A poem dedicated to the sons and daughters who have lost their father to dementia & couldn’t say Happy Fathers’ Day
I miss having to buy a card, I miss having to think what to say, I miss phoning you to let you know You’re special on Fathers’ Day. I missed the last two years of your life, I missed your … Continue reading
The NHS and my experience of the Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester
My experience of the NHS has been, shall I say sporadic with sudden major one off events happening at irregular intervals and on the whole I would say it has been a positive experience. But today I am happy to say … Continue reading
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Tagged doctor, Dorchester County Hospital, Dorchester hopsital, Dorset, GP, hospital, NHS, surgeon, surgery
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It’s a New Age for old age
I can remember when I first witnessed ‘old age’; it’s not up there with my other ‘firsts’ including first kiss (that was pretty disgusting & put me off the whole thing for a long time) or first time on a plane, … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged alone, alzheimers, care home, Cheshire, dementia, elderly, geriatric, loneliness, mental health, nursing home, old age, senior citizen
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NHS Cervical Screening Programme, not to be missed
Too busy. Too embarrassed. Too painful. These are the main reasons given by women for not keeping or making their appointment to have a cervical smear. Like Breast Screening, that I covered in a previous post, it’s something we don’t enjoy … Continue reading
‘First one in last one out’ or is it ‘last one in first one out’? Does the brain decide what has priority?
Can you remember your first words, thoughts, likes, dislikes? Of course you can’t because the chances are you were less then three years old and for most adults, childhood memories start from when you are around 7 years old. So … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged adlolescence, behaviour, brain, cerebral cortex, childhood, dementia, elderly, exercise, home, mentally ill, nature, nurture, old age, residential
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Breast Screening: hardly a pleasure trip but the consequences of not having it could be far more unpleasant
When I received a letter from the Somerset Breast Screening Centre, the alarm bells started to ring. Why had they contacted me? What did they know that I didn’t? Having had the X-ray, would I go through days of mentally … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged breast screening, cancer, cancer research, check-up, hospital, mammogram, mastectomy, medical, treatment, x-ray
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Where has my father gone? The dementia took him.
The non-italic lines represent my father’s rational & coherent thoughts The italic lines represent the dementia taking hold “Please don’t let them take me”. Quick call the police, we’re being murdered in our beds. “I know I’m losing my marbles” … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia
Tagged alzheimers, dementia, father, mental health, mental illness, parent
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My father has dementia and it’s driving me mad.
I have always believed you have to experience something personally before you can sympathise or empathise with someone. For instance, when I had my first baby, I couldn’t help but question the knowledge and advice being handed out to me … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia, Health
Tagged agitated, dementia, father, health, illness, mental health, nursing home, old age, understanding, welfare
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Dementia? Perhaps death is the preferable alternative.
I visited my father today and after 10 minutes left him alone and returned to my car in the car park in floods of tears. A huge argument? A big family bust up? I think I would have preferred either, … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia, Health
Tagged aged, alzheimers, dementia, elderly, geriatric, infirm mental illness, mental health, nursing home
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My memories of my grandfather are happy and enduring but will it be the same for my father?
I adored my grandfather, it helped being his favourite grandchild but all the same, my memories of him are happy ones and I often find myself smiling when I do something that has a link to the time I spent … Continue reading
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Tagged dementia, doctor, elderly, hospice, illness, medicine, mental health, NHS, nursing home
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