AP's Home Care Services

11/11/2025

❌ please expect delays I'm stuck in an accident ❌

I'll get to everyone as soon as I can.

Amy x

03/11/2025

🌧️ TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS 🌧️

Good morning everyone, please expect slight delays this morning, I've been informed my valley road is badly flooded, if this is the case I will have a slight detour!

I am setting off earlier just in case. I'd rather get to your loved ones safely & be slightly late.

Thank you ☺️

31/10/2025

“Being a HCA/CSW must be so easy…
all you do is wipe bums.”

No. Actually — we do so much more.

We start before sunrise,
putting on uniforms that have seen tears, sweat, and laughter.
We walk into wards/ homes that never sleep.
We see faces filled with fear, pain, and hope.

We wash faces, we hold hands,
we listen to stories from people who just need to be heard. We sit for hours with patients just so they don't feel alone.

We clean, yeah —
but we’re also giving dignity back
to someone who’s lost their strength,
their independence,
their control, through no fault of their own.

We feed, we lift, we laugh.
We make people smile on their hardest days.
And sometimes —
we cry in the laundry room, before pulling ourselves together and keep going.

We hold hands as people take their last breath.
We whisper “it’s okay”
even when our hearts are breaking. Whether you have known them for 5 minutes or 5 months it doesn't get easier.

We aren’t “just” anything.
We are the heartbeat of care.
The quiet strength behind every nurse, every doctor, every patient.

We work 12 hr shifts, back to back. We comfort patients and families and we give all we have, every single day. Even when our own worlds are falling apart, you would never know the things we are struggling with behind closed doors because THEY come first.

Someone said to me only last week...."your always happy and cheerful" And that's what I will continue to be as that's what the patient needs. It's not about me in those 12 hours. It's about them. And as hard as things may be for me at that time, they look to you for comfort, strength and positivity. And that's what matters.

So no —
we don’t just wipe bums.
We give comfort.
We bring dignity.
We make a difference —
every single day.

❤️

Here's me pictured below (owner of AP's Home Care) with the best apprentice companion who brings so much joy and happiness to those who not only live with dementia but sometimes enjoy the company and laughter it brings from an 8 year old ❤️

He's trained so well and is very much brought up on what "care" is all about ❤️

02/10/2025

Good morning,

I just want to give you a heads up for all my clients and families, we've had some sudden news of my great grandmother so in the upcoming days/ weeks I may have to take short notice of leave.

Of course, I'll try my best to work as and when I can but in the meantime I am also taking care of my grandparents who will need all the support during this hard time and afterwards with what's to come.

I will still be responding to emails and calls but please bare in mind, there may be a delay.

Thank you for understanding & I will be informing people individually too.

Amy x

01/10/2025

I have attended CPR classes over the years, but was never told this particular scenario. I was told that when your body starts sweating profusely for no apparent reason followed by what feels like a spasm at the end of your esophagus, that is your body’s warning sign.

When you are alone and have a heart attack, what are you gonna do? A really good post that can't be shared often enough:

1. Take a 2 minute break and read this:
Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

2. You are really tired and frustrated.
All of a sudden your experience chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

3. Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

4. Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. That’s how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment.

8. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

9. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

Instead of posting jokes, you're helping save lives by spreading this message.

❤️ COPY (hold your finger, click on the text and select copy, go to your own page and where you normally want to write, select finger again and paste)

29/08/2025

Good afternoon 🤍

After taking a lot of consideration into the decision I'm about to make, it's taken me nearly 5 months to make the follow decision, as much as I haven't wanted to, I'm left no other option.

Due to the high increase of living, work essentials such as PPE, fuel expenses, keeping up with my books etc, I'm having to up my prices of care packages as of 29th September 2025.

Prices are based on locality, rural areas & specific care requirements.

This has been a difficult decision and I've tried to keep things low due to knowing people's financial difficulties this year, I've always put others first. But in order to keep a thriving business and clients care quality to a high satisfactory level, this is the best decision for my business in order to keep it a float.

Each client or POA will individually receive an email with new costings over the next week.

I hope you all understand.

Amy 🤍

17/08/2025

Good evening everyone,

I just want to apologize for the last minute cancellations for tomorrow. Unfortunately I've had an emergency with my pooch potentially breaking a few bones today!

I know I've had a couple of emails over the weekend which I will respond to over the next few days, I'm not ignoring anyone, life's just been a little bit on the hectic side lately 🙈

I can't thank you enough for your understanding & everyone who's helped out with cover. A dog isn't just an animal, their family & she's my child 🙈 so I'll be taking care of her tomorrow, again thank you & I'll be back soon 🤍

28/07/2025

💙 So you may have seen a few weeks ago I've set myself a challenge to aim to complete 15000 steps a day through out August in aid of Motor Neurone Disease.

💙 I've chosen this to help raise money for MND after looking after so many suffering and who are sadly no longer with us due to this disease

💙 I will be posting as often as I can with updates a long my journey

💙 Just £12 can help provide an information pack for those just diagnosed with MND

💙 Please, if you can donate even if it is just £1 it will soon add up to help raise these vital funds, you never know who it may effect

I am taking on 15,000 steps a day this August to help beat Motor Neurone Disease. Right now, around 5,000 people in the UK are living with MND and every step I take is for them. Can you support me? 💙🧡 Just £12 could provide an information pack for a newly diagnosed person with MND. Your donat...

22/07/2025

I just wanted to share with you all my latest nomination with love barrow awards ❤️

My business wouldn't be thriving if it wasn't for my lovely clients, their families, friends & the whole community ❤️

18 months in to AP's & still the best decision I've ever made.

Thank you to whoever nominated me I feel really appreciated ❤️

11/07/2025

I'm having alterations to tonight's tea time visits due to car troubles! Sorry 😐