The Festive period has disrupted our normal flow of carers.  No ‘sits’ were available on Christmas or New Year’s Day.  This meant two lost opportunities for us, at a time when Maureen’s presentation has been very challenging.  Therefore, I sought some recompemse with a ‘sit’ today: I have made a mistake.

Today’s carer arrived and said she hadn’t been here for two years.  She reminded us that she had sat with Maureen for six hours on a previous occasion, when I went to London.  She has now been here for an hour and has not stopped talking.  I have left them too it.  My dad would have said: ‘she’s been vaccinated with a gramophone needle’: I have to intervene or Maureen will be sleep for a week after she’s gone.

Today’s experience heightens the need to review the role of paid carers.  This will be an important part of the review that I referred to in my post earlier today.  Maureen needs the right sort of stimulation she doesn’t need to be battered with the life history of paid carers.

Postscript: Maureen is on her knees after a verbal battering for an hour and a half.  We’ve given the woman an ‘early bath’ and sent her off shopping.