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My MiL ended up being taken to hospital in an ambulance yesterday. I suspected it was coming, we'd been there earlier in the day to take some black bags of rubbish to the dump for my SiL and my MiL's breathing was terrible. The problem is, she's so incredibly stubborn and said she'd go to the doctor today when she plainly wasn't well at all. My SiL and her partner both said they'd call for an ambulance if she got worse, so that was the best we could leave it at.
We went to the dump, had a phone call to say our new car was at the garage getting adapted, so drove past there so James could take some photos of it and get to know Clem a little, if only from the outside. Which is when Kayleigh phoned to say she'd been signed off from work for a fortnight - which I also knew was coming. Went home and I packed away all the Christmas stuff, got James off to work, hoovered the fake pine needles that were everywhere and cleaned the windows of fake snow. Then settled down for some online time with the house pleasingly clean and tidy. Then my SiL's partner phoned saying they'd called an ambulance for my MiL as she'd deteriorated big time.
Obviously James was at work by then so I sent him a message and settled down to wait for more news. Which is when I read and fed the bandom holidays works, which was an excellent distraction. Long story short, I told James and his work allowed him to come home, he picked me up and we went to the hospital where for the people waiting in triage it was an 8 hour wait, but thankfully not as long for my MiL, though she did end up lying on a trolley in a corridor for three hours waiting for a room. But, at least she was warm, had meds and oxygen.
She's where she needs to be now -- though I remain frustrated that if she'd gone to the doctor when she first started to feel ill this could have been nipped in the bud. I'm also frustrated that she pretty much lives in squalor and won't allow anyone to help with that. My in laws have had no lights in the kitchen for years but won't get it fixed, using a lamp instead. But more seriously, the thermostat on their heating has been broken for nearly two years, so they just don't use it, and in fact where talking about getting the gas cut off as they don't use any gas. My FiL keeps saying it'll be a £100 fix, but they won't arrange the fix or let anyone else pay for it. Instead sitting under blankets in a damp freezing house when they both have health issues. I swear, I could bash my head off the nearest wall at times when I think about their living situation.
We'll be going to the hospital later, but for now I'm going to catch up online, drink many cups of coffee and be grateful for my SiLs partner who ignored my MiL and phoned for an ambulance, otherwise the outcome could have been so much different.
We went to the dump, had a phone call to say our new car was at the garage getting adapted, so drove past there so James could take some photos of it and get to know Clem a little, if only from the outside. Which is when Kayleigh phoned to say she'd been signed off from work for a fortnight - which I also knew was coming. Went home and I packed away all the Christmas stuff, got James off to work, hoovered the fake pine needles that were everywhere and cleaned the windows of fake snow. Then settled down for some online time with the house pleasingly clean and tidy. Then my SiL's partner phoned saying they'd called an ambulance for my MiL as she'd deteriorated big time.
Obviously James was at work by then so I sent him a message and settled down to wait for more news. Which is when I read and fed the bandom holidays works, which was an excellent distraction. Long story short, I told James and his work allowed him to come home, he picked me up and we went to the hospital where for the people waiting in triage it was an 8 hour wait, but thankfully not as long for my MiL, though she did end up lying on a trolley in a corridor for three hours waiting for a room. But, at least she was warm, had meds and oxygen.
She's where she needs to be now -- though I remain frustrated that if she'd gone to the doctor when she first started to feel ill this could have been nipped in the bud. I'm also frustrated that she pretty much lives in squalor and won't allow anyone to help with that. My in laws have had no lights in the kitchen for years but won't get it fixed, using a lamp instead. But more seriously, the thermostat on their heating has been broken for nearly two years, so they just don't use it, and in fact where talking about getting the gas cut off as they don't use any gas. My FiL keeps saying it'll be a £100 fix, but they won't arrange the fix or let anyone else pay for it. Instead sitting under blankets in a damp freezing house when they both have health issues. I swear, I could bash my head off the nearest wall at times when I think about their living situation.
We'll be going to the hospital later, but for now I'm going to catch up online, drink many cups of coffee and be grateful for my SiLs partner who ignored my MiL and phoned for an ambulance, otherwise the outcome could have been so much different.