Patreon Update - June 2022 AUDIO EDITION
Added 2022-06-05 20:13:33 +0000 UTCIt's not been the best month and I really want to explain why...
This is the audio only version - a video version is available in a separate post.
Here’s the link to the latest BGM cart upload on YouTube - https://youtu.be/gV_fpuj5bzI (I ended up posting the full four hours).
Comments
It's very kind of you to post this. I've never heard of Sundowners Syndrome before. I feel my father has good days/hours and bad ones, but nothing to this degree. I'm still spending a lot of time trying to sort out the family estate. My mission is to get enough money into my dad's bank account so he can pay for the rest of his days in his current care home. It's just a lot of admin to get this to happen. I'm happy that I eventually managed to get him into a place that he is happy with. Anyway I'm glad you're here and there are plenty of YouTubers who are using the platform for interesting and entertaining content - finding them amongst the chaff is the issue...as YouTube prefers to promote the chaff first.
Techmoan
2022-09-10 19:54:38 +0000 UTCSorry to be late commenting here. I'm a new patron, as of today, and am taking a lovely leisurely look through all this older material on Patreon (I've been watching your videos and enjoying the high quality for a very long time–your content might even have been the first example that turned me on to YouTube as a genuine creator platform, and not just a place where people posted stolen Family Guy clips, or some hobbyist pointed a camera at something they found interesting and just talked for 30 minutes solid without once moving the camera). Anyway, down to brass tacks. I've just come out of a period of "family events" remarkably similar to yours. My mother was in a care home, and had both dementia and short-term memory loss. She was "high functioning" and could still chat to em – I always said to people she was around 60% of what she used to be. And she would call me several times a day. The pattern was to call, instantly forget, then call again as if she hadn't called all day. She also had Sundowners Syndrome, a form of dementia where anxiety ramps up as the evening begins. As far as she was concerned, the way she was feeling was a blue-light emergency and I should rush over immediately, but of course while it was new to her, it wasn't new to me. Her record was calling 85 times in one evening. I'm not going to be patronising and offer advice. I don't know if you want it. But... What helped me enormously was Age Concern, who ran one-to-one counselling sessions for family of dementia sufferers, and also group sessions for family members, too. I was lucky enough to get a really good counsellor. I think the key thing is to just reach outside of your immediate environment, if you aren't already, and get others involved. (In general this is good advice for many personal situations that are intolerable.) Anyway, I enjoy your videos and long may they continue. I comment on a few here and there. I've been working as a journalist and content creator for a while, with some stories to tell. In many ways you're doing what I would love to do if I had the time or talent. I always think you're doing us all a service by doing videos on all the old gadgets we used to press our faces against Dixons' windows to gaze at – it certainly avoids me having a load of old partially-dismantled gadgets and technology around the house! Keir Thomas-Bryant https://keirthomas.com
Keir Thomas-Bryant
2022-09-10 19:26:15 +0000 UTCYes, the NHS and it's people really ARE a great good for the country... Don't give it up like the Netherlands did. Really, the US system is NEVER better...
Bas van Schooten
2022-06-14 11:09:11 +0000 UTCOMG I didn't know that existed! I loved Toast of London.
Asaf Sagi
2022-06-13 10:42:44 +0000 UTCYou do an amazingly difficult job - I’ve come to appreciate this more in recent years.
Techmoan
2022-06-09 16:12:53 +0000 UTCI work as an NHS carer and have had the same experience with my father, and understand what you are going through at the moment. You can only do your best, even if it doesn't always seem to be enough. Stay strong Matt.
Alex Russell
2022-06-09 13:24:47 +0000 UTCThat part of life is coming up for me and I'm dreading it. I support you on Patreon because I want to help you make the things you do. Taking away that pledge wouldn't make your output any better. A delay which provides your normal good quality in a rough time is a fine value for my patronage.
Timothy Roller
2022-06-09 00:30:07 +0000 UTCI'm absolutely sticking to my monthly payment. Life works like this sometimes and I'm more than glad for my support to help you directly, not the channel. Going to up it a bit till you're back on your feet like others have. Hope things get better for you moving forward.
Andrew Kirkby
2022-06-08 17:17:45 +0000 UTCMy wife and I went through a two year nightmare when my Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimers. He attached both of us, disappeared from home and was apparently a nightmare when he went into care for his last three months. My wife had a breakdown and I needed counselling. Suddenly walking away from supporting the great work you do would be crass. Keep strong Mat, a lot of us understand what you're going through -you just have to keep doing what you have to do.
Michael Bushell
2022-06-07 10:59:04 +0000 UTCAre you asking me to stop supporting you when you need it the most? Not from a high level, but im doubling min Patreon to you from now on, hoping more will follow! I can relate to how you are feeling right now - I took care of my mom with Alzheimer's for about a year before she passed, is incredibly hard. Having friends and family to support you becomes more important than ever.... sending my love, take care.
Jim Solblad
2022-06-06 10:13:55 +0000 UTCAlso I LOVE guess the tune. Really suited the channel. Loved the audiobook vid. Audible has exclusive downloads now. Making it hard for me to cancel 🤣. Listening to toast on toast at the moment. Toast of London one of my fave comedies.
Yourboy_hampshire
2022-06-05 22:45:43 +0000 UTCI’m 11 minutes in. I’m having to listen to the podcast version as my internet is terrible in my new place. After the Second World War everyone had what we now know is PTSD. The entire nation revolted against Churchill even though he had won us the war -because he would not introduce an NHS. So Attlee got in and we got the NHS. The situation we are in now is that we have had the worst event since world war 2 - the pandemic. But unlike then, there is no Attlee to vote in to fix the NHS, and the nation’s devastated mental health. And so here we are, and almost everyone is mentally unwell in some way. The economy is tanking, we are on the verge of street riots, I think. I hope you’re able to gain some access to some counselling, I believe https://able-futures.co.uk have a service for self employed people.
Yourboy_hampshire
2022-06-05 22:35:18 +0000 UTC
