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The problem is Sharnie....I have to battle my Mum too to get her to help herself! She would happily lie in the hospital bed and have everyone do everything for her and get clots and pneumonia. I had to ask the doctor to write up an order to make the nurses walk her three times a day just to make sure she gets out of bed. She's a shocker. She was even refusing to sit up in bed (which caused the low oxygen etc) until I forced the issue and told the doctor that my mother tended to act a lot worse than she really was.....the doctor got the nurse to get Mum out of bed and walk her then and there....her BP normalised and her oxygen levels normalised and they've been forcing her to do more for herself ever since. It's like dealing with a toddler. Let's just say my mother isn't very happy with me at the moment. She thought her arm fracture was going to give her a chance to wallow in bed with people waiting on her hand and foot. I told her that she'd broken her arm....not her legs!
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