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Sue Archer

bawb. Daeth Alfred adre am 4 o'r gloch yn y bore mewn tacsi. Mwy wedyn. Dwi'n mynd i'r gwaith nawr, wedyn, rhaid i mi mynd â'i fam i apwyntiad.

everyone. Alfred came home at 4 o'clock in the morning in a taxi. More later. I'm going to work now, then I have to take his mother to an appointment.

@suearcher

Oh, Sue. 🥴

I'm glad he's home of course, but ... yikes.

Sending hugs & best wishes to you both. 💛

@Her_Doing

Well, it made taking his Mum to her appointment a bit easier, not having to then go hunting for him in the hospital!

He feels better in himself today, although he's still on crutches and the foot is still painful, but slightly better.

Thank you.

@suearcher Belated to hearing about hospital adventures. Sending you much strength and hope you can also rest and catch up on spoons. I am aware carers burn a lot of energy and it is differently but just as validly tiring to be the carer for someone unwell or inna hospital. Somehow hospital waiting is EXHAUSTING.

@NatalyaD

It is indeed exhausting. I think part of the strain for the carer is not being able to DO anything, beyond fetch tea from the awful tea machine.

At least now he's home, I can just wait on him hand and foot, but knowing we've both got comfortable sofas to sit on, and the telly and stuff to entertain us.

@suearcher It is 2000% easier to do care at home in your nice quiet comfortable house, decent tea, and not be on alert for medical things happening or not happening.

The hardest thing about hospital waiting is there's nothing TO do. It's one thing my Dad is great at, turns up with a crossword, packet of sweets and a genuinely cheerful attitude knowing you are gonna wait so might as well be chill about it... Years of experience that both my parents and I had.

@NatalyaD

At one point we were sitting next to a lady knitting, and I said "I wish I'd brought some knitting", which led to an entertaining conversation about crafting for a while, so that was something.

@suearcher Knitting is so good for random stranger conversations!