Category Archives: Juliet

Back to the daily second-hand reporting on Mum. She’s essentially fine, barring the usual blood sugar requirements and need for oxygen, says today’s nurse, but they want to be 100% sure she’s covid-negative before the next course of action. So we are awaiting the swab results. Dad is fine. He doesn’t seem to have aContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 27 April 2020”

Just phoned the hospital and tracked Mum down in Pearson Ward at Chesterfield Royal Infirmary She’s on oxygen and going to be seen by the consultant this morning. She’s also had her third swab in 5 weeks for coronavirus. The last two were negative and she didn’t have any particular signs of Covid-19 when sheContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 26 April 2020”

No news from the battle front this morning. The district nurse goes in first thing to deal with the insulin injection so now Mum and Dad will be getting up, hopefully having breakfast and getting settled for the day. Dad hasn’t phoned, so no immediate panic. It would be good to have a day withoutContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 25 April 2020”

Mum’s spent her first night at home and is very poorly. She’s developed another chest infection and temperature. She’s not really eating and her sugar levels are heading skywards again with ketones beginning to appear, though so far just on the borderline of needing extra treatment. With her so ill, there’s a bitter irony toContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 24 April 2020”

Short version of today’s news: Mum was discharged and the district nurses sent her straight back to hospital as they judged the situation unsafe. Dad’s just phoned to say that the hospital are sending her back home again. Stop press: the hospital diabetes nurse has just phoned me to try and sort out the bestContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 23 April 2020”