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16391. judithathome - 8/30/2005 7:56:28 PM Jag update: STILL at the shop! This is ludicrous. 16392. Jenerator - 8/30/2005 8:37:46 PM Judith is really a rapper!!??
I knew it!
 16393. judithathome - 8/30/2005 8:56:22 PM I didn't say I was ludicrous, Jen. ;-) 16394. judithathome - 8/31/2005 8:17:59 PM Jag update: same as before...supplier sent wrong bushings, waiting for the correct ones to arrive.
I feel like Godot. 16395. Magoseph - 8/31/2005 8:26:01 PM Yes, it's hell not to have a car disponible at all times in this country, unless you live in a large city with subways and buses.
Beautiful weather here today, one of those perfect days that are so rare when the temperature is 72 degrees, no clouds, and no one around to bother you. I am repotting my plants in larger wooden containers with liners I found in the basement. 16396. Jenerator - 8/31/2005 8:48:59 PM I hate to bring in somewhat bad news, but...
My mom is doing alright - she is recovering and is extremely drugged, but her care has been horrible.
Has anyone ever had to make a formal complaint against a nurse before?
I spoke to the charge nurse about my concerns, but I fear that I need to take it higher to the Chief of Staff and Administration.
In a nutshell, there has been NO communication between any of the staff members responsible for her care. SHe was given food she was allergic to, despite a nutrition request, and when she paged them three times to ask for help and to notofy them she felt ill, they put a vomit bucket at her feet - she can't even sit up at a 30% incline!!!! (She got sick all over herself and they were put out by it). She has not been given her pain medication in a prompt or orderly fashion (waiting one and a half hours for it, six hours after invasive surgery, is not acceptable) and she has been neglected with water. They put it seemingly deliberately out of her reach and then will not bring to her after she pages them and requests it. The list goes on.
Needless to say I am furious. 16397. judithathome - 8/31/2005 11:10:38 PM Jen the quality of care in hospitals these days leaves one speechless...I am so sorry this is happing to your mom.
Don't forget MsGreer...she is a patient advocate and could probably help you sort this out...meaning about what your options are. 16398. Ms. No - 9/1/2005 3:27:14 AM I'm glad to hear her surgery went well but what an awful way to be treated.
Make sure that you document each infraction and the name of the staff members on duty at the time responsible for her care.
And, yes, Ms.Greer is the expert and would likely be happy to give you some advice. 16399. Magoseph - 9/1/2005 12:45:32 PM That is just too bad, Jen, but throw your weight around and scream bloody murder and these inadequate nurses will quack in their shoes and fulfill your every wish. 16400. judithathome - 9/1/2005 1:10:58 PM So I'm up at the crack of dawn today...you might think it's because I'm going to pick up my car bright and early but you'd be wrong. 16401. Macnas - 9/1/2005 1:48:38 PM Judith, I get the impression that everything is not going your way right now. 16402. judithathome - 9/1/2005 2:02:18 PM Ha...you are so right! This has been the August of my Discontent. 16403. Magoseph - 9/1/2005 2:08:30 PM Has school started where you are, Mac.? I thought that maybe you took a holiday before it did. 16404. Macnas - 9/1/2005 2:20:07 PM I took last Friday off Mago, for my wifes birthday.
And yes, both my kids went off to school today, and about time too, lazy devils. 16405. Magoseph - 9/1/2005 3:44:35 PM Maybe your wife will have some rest now--I realize in retrospective that many of the trips I took with the boys during the summer when they were children happened because it was easier to provide entertainment for them this way than at home. I would manage to end every trip in a place where they could participate in sports. Once they exhausted themselves, I would head for home and for a while enjoyed a quiet house, that is, until the next trip. I realize also now that the kids actually tricked me often to the point that I had only one thought in mind and it was: Let’s get the hell out of here right now! 16406. Macnas - 9/1/2005 4:15:00 PM Indeed Mago, she said to me a few minutes ago that she found the whole thing very "liberating". 16407. Magoseph - 9/1/2005 4:39:12 PM I bet she felt that way! You know, at first after they were gone, I thought there was something was wrong with me walking down the street without two energetic boys trailing me. When I realized they really were gone for ever as boys and I had done with them the very best I knew how, the sense of liberation was so powerful that I was giddy with i. Time for me, I thought and then I went to the nearest university and enrolled for a teaching degree. 16408. alistairConnor - 9/1/2005 5:08:51 PM This week I am at home with my daughters and my mother. They have somewhat divergent needs.
Yesterday I took the girls rock climbing, and my mother sat and watched. That worked well. 16409. Macnas - 9/1/2005 5:15:39 PM Is your Mam visiting? 16410. Magoseph - 9/1/2005 5:15:46 PM You could have brought your girl friend to keep company with your mother.
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