Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Seems you have hit the jackpot peg, very rare in the age care industry,

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Good news Peg. There are some good facilities out there, mainly due to the staff and volunteers involved, and usually community owned as well. Hope it continues to live up to your initial impressions. I know there is a similar community built and owned Aged Care facility in my home town and I hear good things about it also.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

The whole aged care industry (not just high care) needs a total overhaul. The “fees” they charge make the banks and credit card companies looks like mother teresa.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

best of luck Peg I really hope you don’t need luck.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

peg, last 2 years we wife and I voluntered in an aged care facility, supposed to be one of the best, if that was the best I would not like to visit a bad one.
My wife is 67 and as you may know I am 70, we have given each other the Solomn assurance that we will never put each other in an aged care facility, it does not matter what that means we will never live in one.
Ppl stuck in corners covered in shit, personal property fair game for anyone, no privacy etc. One day I walked past a room, the poor lady was up on a hoist they used to clean them each morning, stark naked with the door wide open, when I took the nurses to task it was obvious they did not give a stuff.
The aged care industry for that is what it is, just a business, is there only to make money the care of residents is secondary.
My wife and I will sit down with a bottle of booze and a packet of pills before we enter one. We feel very strongly about this, better dead than a total loss of dignity.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Hope he settles well and you all feel less stressed !

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Little bit of info for those interested in strokes and their symptoms..

Also known as TIA’s….Or mini strokes. No bleeding, temporary blockage.

A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is when blood flow to a part of the brain stops for a brief period of time. A person will have stroke-like symptoms for up to 1-2 hours.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Watched my grampa piss himself while driving a truck (he thought) in his wheel chair.
This was back in the late 70’s and scarred me a little as a kid.
Dumped in a corner, stinking of piss and shit, some other old codgers clothes on as they (the patients and nurses/auxiliaries ) just lift anything and fling it on them.

Not much has changed, wife’s gran died a couple of years ago in an old folks place after her alzheimers got really aggressive and rendered her a veg and her old man was out of his depth.
The old woman in next room came past affter they were visiting the corpse (morbid sense of humour i know ! ) wearing her cardigan, wife was distraught.

My parents are now touching 70 and both in Scotland and I am here ( only child) so it worries me too as to what can happen as my dad has been a smoker for 60yrs and a prime naval p ower drinker for 55yrs.
Don’t know how the old fucker is still alive to be honest :D

Anyhow, hope all gets better for ya mate,

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

I went through similar probs with my Mum. Temporary places were shit awful. Finally got her into a nice place for her final months.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Good luck Peg, have some understanding of what you are going through. MIL is starting to slip mentally after a heart attack last year. We are in the final stages of AC assessment at the moment.

Topic: Can of Worms..... Aged Care

Best wishes with all of it mate. I can’t imagine any of the pain that comes with all of that and I have my fingers crossed it won’t be something I need to worry about for a few decades yet

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

sounds great..

The wife and I play our local….Coolah golf club..

Great layout, challenging, but sand greens…

we are always up for a hit…

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

Somewhere near Ayers Rock are you ?

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

Good one mate :)
Its a National thing

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

Not having much luck with this thread are you Pegs, wear a pink shirt on Oct 23 and you’ll probly get bashed up.

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

No 44 gallon oil drum on the sand ?

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

Do you turn left or right at Broken Hill ? :)

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

Bit far for me to travel or I would jump at the chance. Maybe in a few years after I retire.:-)

Topic: Golfers in the NSW Bush!!!

Mustn’t be any internet out there ?
Or everyones on Farmer wants a wife ?

Topic: HELP Local Rules!!!!!!!!!

But you both had the same conditions. Did you lose the match? If you won, would you be asking for advice?

It doesn’t matter if they both had the same conditions the local rule was ignored

Topic: HELP Local Rules!!!!!!!!!

But you both had the same conditions. Did you lose the match? If you won, would you be asking for advice?

Topic: HELP Local Rules!!!!!!!!!

Rules of Golf, Part A – App 1 Local Rules.

Furthermore breach of a local rule in matchplay is loss of hole and if you lost the match I believe you have the right to a rematch or indeed victory due to your oponents breach of said local rule.

Topic: HELP Local Rules!!!!!!!!!

If a local rule is in force it is there to be taken advantage of. If there is a person or opponent for some unknown reason who doesn’t want to take advantage of the local rules it is there choice to do so. Like publish said it is in force to anyone until removed from the local rules board

Topic: HELP Local Rules!!!!!!!!!

however the I was advised that as I was competing in the Club Matchplay Championships both players had to agree to use the local rule otherwise you had to play the ball as it lies.