Explaining the medication to a care agency

Started 14 August 2024 · 19 replies · 235 hearts · read 3.1k times

BramberSteyning, UK · 14 August 2024

1.9 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Explaining the medication to a care agency Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

I have worked out a system that mostly holds and there is one part of it that keeps failing, and I would like to hear how other people solved that part.

I would like practical detail rather than encouragement. What people actually do, in what order, and what goes wrong when they get it wrong.

Sorry for the length. The logistics take longer to describe than they do to do.

KeeleyBlackpool, UK

Something practical: I got my collections aligned with the ones I already do for somebody else, and it saved me a journey a month.

10me too 8

LandoLeeds, UK

Bramber, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

Eating properly is the thing that goes first when I am stretched, and it goes without me noticing, and this circle is where I noticed.

PamSouthport, UK

My GP asked how I was doing as a carer, once, unprompted, and I cried in the appointment, which surprised us both.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

A standing reminder rather than a correction of anybody: suggestions here often quietly assume a car, a spare afternoon or a household that can absorb the disruption. Several members have none of those, and it is worth saying what a suggestion assumes.

SableCape Town, ZA

Gently disagreeing with Pam, or rather adding the other half of it.

My own appointments come last, always, and this was the first thing in a decade I have organised for myself.

NkosiJohannesburg, ZA

Quietly agreeing from the other side of the country.

BrennaEnniskillen, NI

I do mine at six in the morning because that is the only twenty minutes of the day that belongs to me.

ÖzlemIzmir, TR

What Nkosi described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The exhaustion was already there before any of this. Working out what was new and what was simply caring took me a long time.

SerenLlandudno, UK

Brenna said something I want to sit with for a second.

What I did not expect was how much better I have been at caring since my own energy improved. That is the argument that finally convinced me.

GwythFishguard, UK

#10

I keep everything in one bag that travels with me, because I am rarely in the same place two nights running.

ZoraSarajevo, BA

#11

Picking up Gwyth’s point rather than starting a new one.

I have stopped apologising for the length of time it takes me to reply to things. Everybody here understands.

LinnetKendal, UK

#12

My experience is that this is entirely doable while caring, and that it needs more planning than the guides assume.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

#13

Nobody has asked me how I am in about four years and this circle asks every week, which is most of why I am still here.

9me too 3

GigiNaples, IT

#14

Coming back to say we found a rhythm, that his care has been stable for a year, and that I have kept going, which two years ago I would not have predicted.

PipBristol, UK

#15

What I found is that the logistics assume a person with a spare afternoon, and I have not had a spare afternoon since 2019.

FitzLimerick, IE

#16

What helped was one hour a fortnight that is genuinely mine, arranged formally, so that it cannot quietly disappear.

BramberSteyning, UK

#17

This is the post I wish had existed when I was looking for it.

WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK

#18

Thank you for asking the practical question. This circle is at its best on exactly this and the answers are already better than any guide I could write.

LandoLeeds, UK

#19

I would say ask about a carer's assessment if you have not. Mine took an hour and unlocked things I did not know existed.