She arrives home to an email response.
Subject: Getting out tomorrow??
Had a bizarre evening with granddad last night. The Seascale drama was in full swing and there were four guys in the short term intensive care unit including granddad. Each of them was wired with about seven wires and had tubes hanging out of their arms. Wires led to junction boxes and then to monitors, with echoes at the desk. Except granddad, who had the luxury of the only wireless system in the ward, but still all the connections.
I had my phone on (tut, tut) waiting for a number which Cathy wanted me to relay, and an incoming text makes two shrill descending double bleeps on my phone. For some reason I'm receiving double texts at present, the second copy arriving 5 or 6 seconds after the first. Each time one of these chaps moved a wire seemed to come off setting off a loud harsh alarm at 2 second intervals in addition to the various bleeps and chirps which were coming out of the monitors. Granddad is deaf and was intermittently putting on and removing the amplified headphones I had taken for him (he refuses to use his hearing aid in case he loses it - ever!). At one point three alarms were going off, with a loud conversation going on across the ward with inevitable mis-understandings and corrections. The nurses were on 'hand over' so they were too busy transferring notes to come and reconnect.
In the middle of this cacophony I started to receive double texts from various members of the family and friends both related to granddad and also to the Seascale drama, just as I was switching granddads tv/phone assy. on (under his instruction) and it immediately started to ring with Tim on the end. As each text text :) was doubled, the first alerted those of sound hearing, the second confirming whose pocket it was coming from. No sooner had granddad started his noisy conversation with Tim, than the nurse came in shouting "Roy, Roy, there's a call from you daughter at the desk." I was quite glad to get out!
You'll be pleased to hear that he has responded to a change of drugs, his pulse and blood pressure have both come down significantly (despite the audio-tronics!!). I've just heard they've given him an anti-biotic for a possible chest infection, but with a fair wind he may be going home tomorrow; he's gearing up for his 90th birthday next week.
xxx
1 comment:
The double text alert is quite a common problem for iPhone users. Usually you need only go to Settings>Notifications>Messages and then set Repeat Alert to 'Never'. If this doesn't solve the problem one can try changing the Alert Style to 'None'.
I myself have been receiving "triple" alerts for the past several weeks. Like Mike, two within a few seconds of each other and then remarkably, a third replicant notification about an hour later. The solution I outlined above has had no affect and subsequently I have reached such a state of mental unease that I have begun to view my phone with suspicion and ignore all notifications regardless of their originality.
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