Well today went smoother than yesterday. Although, instead of doing toast I had porridge and it blew up in the microwave. Oh yum! It tasted like paste and considered giving it to the decorators who were in work doing up a flat. The only way I tolerated it was by putting banana in it, could imagine it sticking to my stomach lining.

Anyhoo, todays events! Well, had a bit of a problem in the morning when bathing a tenant but the real problem arrived just before lunch…

To cut the long story short, one of the tenants had a really nasty fall and had a large cut to her lower leg, happened a few weeks ago. It was stitched up and hasn’t been allowed to walk… until yesterday. Yesterday, we walked with the lady to lunch and she done really, really well. Today, however, we were on our way to her flat to walk with her and we see her in the corridor and next thing we know she is down on the floor. We run to her and it was clearly visible she had broken her ankle. Totally. Her foot was facing the other way around, there was blood and she was going into shock. I ran into the office to let the senior know who phoned the ambulance and we helped the lady.

The operator put it down as a low priority and when the ambulance crew got there the woman mouthed to us “oh my god” as they weren’t expecting that. By this stage the lady was in so much pain she was given morphine and oxygen and they said the operator should have put it as a high priority as the lady was in a right state.

Anyhoo, she was taken to hospital and it is very unlikely she’ll return. We’re wondering if she had her ankle X-rayed when she fell last time… maybe she had muscle weakness.. maybe she cracked the bone. Dunno. It just makes me feel really, really sad at the thought of never seeing this woman again. She has trouble walking as it is, now this is going to knock her right back and will probably end up in a nursing home due to inability to mobilise. We just need to wait and see. This lady always makes me laugh and smile whenever I see her.

Lunch was madness. We were two staff down but we worked really well as a team and still finished lunch at normal time. Staff meeting tomorrow - oh joy!! Oh - and about my job - there’s a chance the lady CAN’T return in August afterall… it’s just going on and on and on, isn’t it?