How have you come to the decision to have some respite care?
Wife: Eh, well, it was the nurses kept on. They kept on at me that, to put him into respite but I didn't want to do it but eventually they talked me into letting, and he went into one but he was only in two days and he was soaked all the time. They couldn't put the domes on and my son went up at night to see him. I'd been up in the afternoon. He was sitting in his room on his own, there was no TV or anything and when [my son] went up at night again, he was sitting soaking in his room, so [my son] phoned me up and he said, “Mum, you'll have to take him home”, so I phoned them up and said, “I'll be up tomorrow morning for him” and I brought him home. But the one that he was in when I had the heart attack…
Husband: Yeah.
Wife: they were nicer in there. You were still wet…
Husband: That's right, yeah.
Wife: …but they were awful good, weren't they?
Husband: I can't mind too much about that other one, you know.
Wife: So he was there five and a half weeks, it wasn't so bad but, as I say, it was all really old people and he just sat in his room all the time breaking my heart.
But this one you're going into now…
Wife: It's good because there's younger people there, you know, and he's, you're able to speak. You enjoyed it that last time.
Husband: Aye, that's right. |
