Re: Another missing person nobody checked on
- From: "Phyllis Nilsson" <phyllisnilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:06:01 -0400
There are times when I don't feel I'm doing so well. When the cardiologist
told us Thursday Bror needed a pacemaker or defibrillator, my chest suddenly
got as tight as a drum and I couldn't think straight to save myself. After
giving myself ten minutes, I knew it was time to get it together.
Bror was only in for three weeks for rehab (broken and split his left femur)
and never got it (they couldn't do any "significant" rehab because he had to
go to dialysis three times a week and couldn't have rehab on those days).
He was not given a dialysis diet, they forgot to send him to dialysis one
day, and they dropped him to the floor once.
I was told I couldn't take him home because I couldn't care for him. With
the help of an aide coming in for two hours three mornings a week, a
hospital bed, a transfer board, a commode, a physical therapist (I kicked
out the first one; second one was much better), occuptional therapist, and
an ambulette service for dialysis, we made it. One year later he was able
to walk again. That was the winter I was shoveling snow at 4 a.m. in the
middle of a snow storm so he could get down the ramp and into the ambulette
for surgery scheduled for 6 a.m. Hope I never have to go through a year
like that again.
My stepfather went to a nursing home from the hospital (pneumonia) and they
over-medicated him, consistently gave him foods he didn't like (they had a
list they'd asked him to fill out), and the smoking room was two doors from
his room and he has COPD. His bill was wrong on more than one occasion, and
the social worker got fired for not knowing what he was doing. I got my
stepfather out of there and he's been in his own apartment now for over two
years. When he left he was on nine drugs, now he takes potassium, Lasix,
and Combivent. Surprisingly, the heart problem he was taking medication for
must have disappeared because there is no sign of heart disease now.
A friend of mine had to spend three months in rehab. She is a diabetic.
She had to have her husband bring salads and the foods she could eat because
the nursing home didn't have a diabetic diet.
I love being home. If I'm lucky that's where I'll die. If my family is
lucky I'll go so quickly it won't become a hardship for them.
"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply" <mmeahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:45f90bd5$0$27250$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your husband has been in a nursing home for three weeks? *****HUGS***** I
can't imagine what you must be feeling right now...
With that said, my aunt, in her 60s, took care of my grandmother along
with her 70-ish-year-old husband until the nicest nursing home in the area
had room, and it was a wonderful place for her to be, visitors were
allowed in 24/7 and the care was wonderful.
You take care of yourself, Phyllis, and keep inspiring me with your
example of fighting instead of rolling over and giving up. You are doing
far better than I am doing with far more than I have to deal with.
.
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