Hey everyone, hope you’re all keeping as well as you can be. I changed my role at work a few weeks ago, I was a care assistant in a nursing home and now I am an activities coordinator for the residents that are bed bound. I had a fall at work, gave myself a fright and my lovely colleague. I decided after the fall to come off care, my thoughts are how can I keep the residents safe if I can’t keep myself safe!
I was absolutely devastated about coming off care because I wanted to stay in the role for as long as I could. Ms had other plans for me, I feel better about it now as I am still making a massive difference. I don’t really know why I’m telling you all, it’s good to share this with you as we are all going through this i suppose. Anyone else had a similar experience happen to them, thank you for taking the time to read this post, Angie 
Haven’t had to change my working role (yet), but its good to hear that you are feeling better about your change.
Just to say - thank you for your nice and rather reassuring story and I hope you still get to interact with the residents that you arrange activities for. All the best to you
Thank you for reading and replying, it means a lot
Thank you for reading and replying, I am only working two days a week now but it’s enough for me. I read, paint nails, do jigsaws but most of all I love listening to the residents talk about their stories being brought up. When you care for the elderly/vulnerable you hear about the war and how our life now is very different to how theirs was, we don’t realise how lucky we are
Indeed and it’s amazing how much things have changed in their lifetimes. My Dad was in a care home for the last few months of his life and enjoyed the various activities and entertainments. He died last year at age 96 and could remember his childhood days of taking it in turns to bath in a tin bath in front of the open fire ( no heating except for coal fires) outside toilets, a man going down the street every night and morning to light and switch of the gas street lights, cars being a very rare thing - no cars for the vast majority of people. Then being a radio operator in WW2 and being taken out to his first ‘posting’ by ‘steamship’ in the middle of the night in case the ship was spotted by German planes. And one of his favourite stories - toilets on the troop ship didn’t have any doors because if the ship was hit by German planes or U Boats there was a danger the doors might buckle, jam and the occupant might be stuck in the toilet of a sinking ship. That and many more memories from a world and life completely different to the ones we have now