Lynn's Review Of The Carer's Handbook

It's taken me just over four years to collect a shelf full of leaflets and fact sheets, from a dozen different sources, in order to get to a point where I 'think' I've got the best package I can for us! I read all the information I needed - and more - in The Carer's Handbook in four afternoon bursts. Oh what I could have done with all that wasted time..

Thank you Jane for taking much of your precious time to put this information together for others.

Lynn lives with her husband Pete and cat George. In 1980 Pete had a Brain Haemorrhage due to a malformation in the blood vessels in his brain, leaving him paralysed down one side and with severe loss of cognitive skills.

Lynn says: "He had another one in May 2004 and needed a second craniotomy, which resulted in further brain injury. Whilst recovering in our local hospital they let him slip on a wet floor and he fractured his hip (the paralysed side) which really mucked his mobility up.

"The good news is that the malformation in his brain has now been removed completely.
He is very intelligent, funny, and a joy to look after. He does both crosswords in the Daily Telegraph every day. He has one or two bad days when he gets angry and frustrated but not many.

"I was able to work full time until 1996, then I worked part time for a mental health charity until May 2004, but am now his full time carer."