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Some health carers have no idea, so sorry @Snowie. Sending you gentle hugs, a warm shower, a hot cuppa and the couch sound like good medicine 💕✔️

Thanks @Anastasia

No, some don't have any idea. I find it hard enough to tell anyone about my sh and si thoughts, let alone a complete stranger on the phone.

I hope your day is going ok sweetheart 💕💕

This is the second time this has been done to you @Snowie Is there somewhere you can make a complaint or at least voice how inappropriate it is and how it makes you feel? It is not coming from a caring place (as far as I can see) - it is yet again about ticking boxes and totally ridiculous. Do not for one minute think about yourself as a 'liar' - cold calling like that they should not expect those questions to be answered - it really makes me angry for you that this has happened again ...do they have any understanding that there are real people behind these calls who may very well be struggling and that just adds to ones stress ...grrr!!!!

Thanks @Zoe7 I am not sure if there is a place I can put in a complaint. It is about ticking boxes. I am not sure what the nurse would have done anyway if I had said yes to some of her questions. The hospital is an hour away so unless they called 000 there wouldn't have been much they could do anyway.

How has your day been sweetie?

I know it takes extra effort Hon but it would be well worth letting the 'powers that be' know just how inappropriate and ridiculous those calls are. You have enough to deal with - for goodness sake - you are not undergoing ECT just for the fun of it ...they need to know what kind of effect such a call has. I am not pushing you to do what you do not want to do - or even care to do but their practices are very flawed and it does affect people adversely ...and I hate seeing it have this effect on you yet again because of their box ticking. I will just sit here in my angry chair for you @Snowie

Watched the AFLW grandfinal - my girls won - 3rd time lucky. They played really well and it has helped turn a sad day for me into one with a little joy in it. I will now forever remember the day my Pop died as also the day we won our first women's premiership 👍

That is an exceptional outcome @Zoe7 !!!!

Very happy for you 😊🎊

Agree with everything Zoe has said @Snowie, I wasn't aware it's happened before. It's disgraceful if that's common practice. I really am sorry 😔💕

It does make me more hurt more then anything else hon, as I feel just like a number to them and not a person. I am meant to go back and have more ECT next week so might even talk to the lead nurse there about it. She seems nice and caring.

I am glad your team won today hon @Zoe7 and it has brought some joy into your day. It is hard to deal with those days when someone close to us has past away on that date. I hope you have been able to remember his memory in a good way.

Sitting with you sweetheart 💟

Thanks @Anastasia for the thoughts.

How has your day going for you hon?

I'm ok, tiny improvement. Still in bed but I would like to try to sit in the lounge tonight and watch telly @Snowie

That sounds like a great idea @Snowie Talk to the head nurse and let her know how ridiculous and invasive those calls are and also just how it makes you feel. The system can only change if those of us actually going through it speak up (when we cn of course).

My Pop's team won last night too so I have been remembering him with fondness. The first ever grandfinal I can remember was between Carlton and Collingwood - I remember that because my Pop went to it - he wasn't following either team but just wanted to see the game with some mates. He was one wonderful person and that is what I remember him for 💖 - and now a premiership on the sme day 👍