No, this is not a joke. This is a disaster. The decline of Western civilisation, no less. Note: I can make a telephone call just fine. I can even dial internationally. I have a brother in the US, I pick up the phone, dial the number, and if he's not too lazy to pick up, I can talk to him. Even my mom can do that. Or rather, she could have, 20 years ago. When you still had regular landlines and telephones in nursing homes. Those are gone now. My mom has a fancy touchscreen she can use to open the curtains, turn on the light and 'pick up' the phone - except that the screen is always just out of reach from where she is at in her wheelchair. Or turned the wrong way, or set too high.. She now panics when she hears the phone ring and is not near it, forgets she needs to press the green icon on the screen. She often sits at the dining table, her own table we brought from home, but the touchscreen is on a rollable table they can roll anywhere, as long as it is near her bed, which is where she is not. So even if she doesn't panic, and if it is not turned upwards (the way the nurses use it), she can't get there in time. And when she does, and if she can reach it, she can't call by herself: international numbers are blocked. They said they would see if there is a way around, as more clients would like that.. but nothing so far. She has a mobile phone, but leaves it somewhere, or turns it off, or it slips from her hand and falls to the ground. And the menu's confuse her. Besides, calling internationally from a mobile is damn expensive here. My mom just wants to be able to pick up a regular phone, with a cord attached, and call her children. What the hell is so difficult here?
Only for incoming calls. Sorry, I don't have a good idea for her making calls to the states. Maybe tell him to call her more often.
I've seen those: desk phones that work with a simcard.. Nice for incoming and national calls, but not a solution for outgoing international calls. There even used to be devices that let you connect an old-fashioned analog phone to a device that then hands off the call to a cellphone. Same problem. But yes, if I forget about her wanting to call him, that is a possible solution. I am also going to check again if she can't just have her own internet & phone connection. It's just frustrating to have to figure out solutions yourself which should be standard, and which were no problem before the stupid high tech stuff.
At one point, you could get a phone which looked and acted like an ordinary phone, but used Skype to make calls. Don't know if they still have them or if they're available in your area.
Is that Arkansas spelling? Delate..... Jimmy, hand me my beer...... I gotta delate some brain..... what do they call those things again? You know the things in our noggins. Dammit. I knew I should of ain't dropped out of the third grade. Explains a lot......
Is it possible to get her another of those tablets? That way they can be placed in her two favorite spots so one should normally be near by to her.
My spelling is atrocious at times. But every single web browser that I know of today has spell check. You know that thing where you spell a word wrong and it puts a little red squiggly line under a word spelled wrong. Don't tell me you don't know it's there. Perhaps you should use it.
