by (originally posted on 30 Apr 2008)
Pat (Patricia) Asher, in hospital undergoing tests at the moment after suffering a number of TIA's (mini strokes).
Pat was issued with "an emergency button" on a chain which she was advised to keep round her neck at all times.
A very independent lady she preferred to keep it in the drawer in her bedroom. She and her daughter and son (twins) live in the same house, but each has their own self-contained living area. Her son (a work colleague of mine) who phones her regularly each day, left work early as worried because no reply - to find her out cold on the bathroom floor wedged between the toilet and the sink, and had apparently been lying there for a number of hours. Rushed into hospital she has had another couple of "turns" whilst in there. The hosp not too happy with her ECG results so she is being kept in while more tests are done.
Pat (Patricia) Asher, in hospital undergoing tests at the moment after suffering a number of TIA's (mini strokes).
Pat was issued with "an emergency button" on a chain which she was advised to keep round her neck at all times.
A very independent lady she preferred to keep it in the drawer in her bedroom. She and her daughter and son (twins) live in the same house, but each has their own self-contained living area. Her son (a work colleague of mine) who phones her regularly each day, left work early as worried because no reply - to find her out cold on the bathroom floor wedged between the toilet and the sink, and had apparently been lying there for a number of hours. Rushed into hospital she has had another couple of "turns" whilst in there. The hosp not too happy with her ECG results so she is being kept in while more tests are done.
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