Everyone over 70 should be encouraged to have their shingles jab. I got shingles at 69, and as a result lost my hearing, my balance, got shocking permanent tinnitus and developed encephalitis . My face is still paralysed on one side from the damage the shingles caused. I can now shut my eye at night which is something most people take for granted.
I find it difficult to understand why a decision to give, or not give, an injection is within the purview of someone other than a patient’s GP. But worse, you were told that she did not agree with the GP’s decision. Absurd in the extreme and totally unacceptable!
How frustrating! I'm so glad common sense prevailed, if just ever so barely.
I took my beloved mother in law (who passed of Dementia in early September) for a badly-needed pain shot for her shoulder, then trundled her over to the Convenient Care center for her Covid booster while we were out. She understood none of it, and I barely got her into and out of my car for the first shot. She happily entered the hospital for the booster, thank goodness. My thought same as yours: the Dementia is bad enough. Let's not have a horrific illness on top of it!
However, it was only a few short months later she passed. Gosh. Maybe only a couple of months. Anyway, out of all the horrible terrible things she endured, the Covid shot is the only thing I could have spared her, if I'd had perfect foreknowledge. I sometimes focus on that, and regret.
Dementia is truly terrible, and it leaves us feeling helpless.
I can sympathise and feel all your pain of getting him there, only to be told he can't have jab! I'd have screamed. Thank goodness he had the jab done. It's also no different to having the covid jab of which dementia patients can't consent to but still had to have. I remember only too clearly how stressful it was taking my parents to appointments. Mum with Azheimers, and Dad with Parkinsons Dementia. Both struggled to walk. You write so beautifully
it TRULY beggars belief!!
Everyone over 70 should be encouraged to have their shingles jab. I got shingles at 69, and as a result lost my hearing, my balance, got shocking permanent tinnitus and developed encephalitis . My face is still paralysed on one side from the damage the shingles caused. I can now shut my eye at night which is something most people take for granted.
I find it difficult to understand why a decision to give, or not give, an injection is within the purview of someone other than a patient’s GP. But worse, you were told that she did not agree with the GP’s decision. Absurd in the extreme and totally unacceptable!
How frustrating! I'm so glad common sense prevailed, if just ever so barely.
I took my beloved mother in law (who passed of Dementia in early September) for a badly-needed pain shot for her shoulder, then trundled her over to the Convenient Care center for her Covid booster while we were out. She understood none of it, and I barely got her into and out of my car for the first shot. She happily entered the hospital for the booster, thank goodness. My thought same as yours: the Dementia is bad enough. Let's not have a horrific illness on top of it!
However, it was only a few short months later she passed. Gosh. Maybe only a couple of months. Anyway, out of all the horrible terrible things she endured, the Covid shot is the only thing I could have spared her, if I'd had perfect foreknowledge. I sometimes focus on that, and regret.
Dementia is truly terrible, and it leaves us feeling helpless.
I can sympathise and feel all your pain of getting him there, only to be told he can't have jab! I'd have screamed. Thank goodness he had the jab done. It's also no different to having the covid jab of which dementia patients can't consent to but still had to have. I remember only too clearly how stressful it was taking my parents to appointments. Mum with Azheimers, and Dad with Parkinsons Dementia. Both struggled to walk. You write so beautifully
Bureaucracy makes life so hard.