Tag: social care
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Challenging but rewarding
That’s how people who work in care often describe their work. I had a challenging shift yesterday and I’m anticipating another similar today. I came home feeling a bit anxious and worrying about the future. Yes, challenging behaviours can still happen even in the best care homes and I need to remember to be realistic…
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Holy night, silent night
Hello everyone. It was quiet here for a few days, this is mostly because I was writing a novelette. I have just over 10k words, a couple of more needs adding but not too many. Initially I wanted to write something a bit longer, with at least 20k words but I felt during writing it’s…
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I’ve withdrawn from uni
University of Hull offered me a full refund for my course and, with a heavy heart, I accepted it. I am still glad that I went for it and maybe I needed to make that quick, impulsive decision I made while standing in a corridor of a Sandalwood (Swindon mental hospital) at the end of…
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House with green kitchen floor
I’m reading a book by Martin Slevin titled The little girl in the radiator. I almost finished, there is only a couple of pages left. It’s about author’s mother and how he used to take care of her when she developed Alzheimer’s. It was a rear case where the patient’s communication skills were unaffected –…
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My first uni assignment
I have almost three weeks to submit it and I hope a miracle will happen during this time because I have no idea how to approach it. The purpose of the assignment is to create my own care plan and then offer a critique of person centered care model. This just doesn’t add up to…
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Uni – what have I done again?!
So, of course I didn’t click on a link in the Canvas app, because it wasn’t highlighted in blue, and I didn’t realise that’s where I get assignment brief from. I then emailed student advisors team to tell them I don’t know what to do. They must have thought I’m daft. However, the post is…
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I don’t understand academic writing – stigma example
Ok, so I started my studies and I wonder how I’m going to cope with academic writing if I don’t understand it. I’m just reading a report about perception of dementia; it’s from 2012 so hopefully things improved a bit, if not in perception, then at least in language. Let’s take that couple of sentences…
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Is your name Asbestos?
Have I told you already that I find the subject I chose to study fascinating? Dementia is a course on department of psychology but it also has elements of medicine involved, and also I can research both the patients with dementia and their family’s responses to it. I was at some point thinking OMG, what…
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Fortune telling
There is this meditation in Sleep School app called exactly that: fortune telling. It’s about thinking pattern where we try to predict what is going to happen and I must admit, I do that a lot. Even with little things. For example, while doing my grocery shopping in Lidl yesterday I was trying to ‘predict’…
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I need to pass out for 3 days (I’m a student)
I advertised yesterday that I’m starting uni, Msc in Dementia on University of Hull. Although everything seems to be going in the right direction now, things weren’t ready to advertise yesterday. I didn’t read some part of an email properly, instead I assumed what was in it (how typical of me) and that led to…
Autistic and me 