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Carers Ideas( From all our Carers)

These are just a selection of helpful tips from our carers. Its been added to by carers themselves. It isn't "How to be a Carer"! or do this and it will all be ok. See what you think and try some of the suggestions for yourself. We have to laugh sometimes, even though it might be hard on us.

Consultants

Why do we not call these Doctors just Mr this and Mrs that?

Radiotherapy

Get your patient to sit and listen to radio 4 for a whole day,including desert island disk

Chemotherapy

The art of giving someone  poison and getting away with it!
 
 
"The art of being human, I am here you know as well as the Patient!"

Dieting for carers

Remember meal times? how to drink hot coffee and leave a clinic quickly!

 

It will be Ok trust me?

Who would you trust with your loved one? a man in white coat or a man who laughs?

 

Is the treatment working?

That depends Mr Smith on several things.Time of day, Friday, and the pound has fallen again.
"Don't try to escape from hospital over a weekend!: it wont work!