Deaf Carer

Ah here we go again.  It seems I am doomed to blog about this in my waking hours, my sleeping hours; in life and no doubt in death.  How many times do I have to keep repeating the same two things: NO PHONE CALLS CLEAR MASKS It's as if nobody has the brain cells they were born with these days!   I don't know if it's just me or if it's everyone whose D/d deaf/ HOH but it sure get's frustrating repeating the same things over and over and over. I can't help but wonder how someone you see on a regualr basis can fail to remember these basic points? How do they survive in their day to day life? The mind boggles and quite frankly this week I don't have the energy to figure it out. I was forced into two phone calls in the week due to emails being ignored and today I was forced to phone 119 because you can't book autumn booster Covid 19 vaccines for at housebound patients online.   I want to bang my head against a wall because after 6minutes they hung up on me! Ap...

 Everyone has preferences when it comes to food textures and there are obvious cases of when different textures and softness of food is given, common sense suggests that babies without teeth will have liquidised and then pureeed food before moving on to solids but is this the same for adults?  What about those with disabilities/illnesses/conditions where it affects the ability to chew and swallow? The International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative {IDDSI} have created levels of dysphagi that allow carers and everyone in general to understand what level people are at with their chewing/biting/swallowing without differing opinons becoming a problem.  Remember this is not used with babies who don't have Dysphagia. Dysphagia is where an individual has difficulty with swallowing. The levels are: 7- Regular easy to chew food...a mixture of textures and soft/hardness that when bitten and chewed can be swallowed by everyone.   6- Soft and Bite Sized...foods wil...