RVInit
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:23 pm
I’ve never properly introduced myself in my own thread, and too tired to do it here. Just need to vent a bit.
Mom lost her balance week before last and ended up having to have hip surgery. She also has a fractured left arm as well. Her entire left side is affected and she’s having a really rough time of it.
I’ve been spending the better part of every day sitting with her, encouraging her with her therapy and exercises and helping feed her because she’s not sitting up high enough to see the plate to feed herself and can’t cut anything as she has only one arm to use. She’s completely blind in one eye and has so-so vision in the other, which will also be gone at some point.
She’s not draining me entirely today, which is a rare blessing. Yesterday afternoon I pretty much lost it with the nursing staff, who we’re giving us the run around as to what time and what is the plan for giving my mother her dose of pain medication, which was overdue and much needed. Her nurse had come in the room and said yes it’s time, I’ll be right back. 15 minutes later after listening to my mother cry and ask me where is she with the meds I went out into the hall and eventually found the nurse who told me she didn’t have the medication in her cart and didn’t have a code for the medication storage room. So I asked her what is your plan to solve the problem? My mother is overdue, you said you would be right back and I find you 20 minutes later with the cart down a different hallway taking care of other patients. We’re you planning to tell my mother she was going to have to wait? Did you have a plan for how to get her medication at some point? I was freaking livid. Is it really too much to ask for common human decency?
I asked what time can my mother expect to get her medication. After not getting an answer I found another nurse and after much attempt at calmly asking finally had to resort to saying I will not leave you until you have meds in hand and in her room.
This was one day after we had an issue with nursing assistants who cannot remember that they can’t grab my mother by her broken arm every time they have to change her brief. I have to remind them every single time they change her when I’m here. She had an incident overnight Friday night bad enough that the Nursing Director came in on her day off to talk to the staff about how to care for my mom and then ask us if we wanted to make a police report. I declined the police report for reasons I don’t want to share but insisted that the problem be solved and that I should not have to tell them not to manhandle a fractured arm that is clearly in a sling.
Sorry. Finished with rant.
Mom lost her balance week before last and ended up having to have hip surgery. She also has a fractured left arm as well. Her entire left side is affected and she’s having a really rough time of it.
I’ve been spending the better part of every day sitting with her, encouraging her with her therapy and exercises and helping feed her because she’s not sitting up high enough to see the plate to feed herself and can’t cut anything as she has only one arm to use. She’s completely blind in one eye and has so-so vision in the other, which will also be gone at some point.
She’s not draining me entirely today, which is a rare blessing. Yesterday afternoon I pretty much lost it with the nursing staff, who we’re giving us the run around as to what time and what is the plan for giving my mother her dose of pain medication, which was overdue and much needed. Her nurse had come in the room and said yes it’s time, I’ll be right back. 15 minutes later after listening to my mother cry and ask me where is she with the meds I went out into the hall and eventually found the nurse who told me she didn’t have the medication in her cart and didn’t have a code for the medication storage room. So I asked her what is your plan to solve the problem? My mother is overdue, you said you would be right back and I find you 20 minutes later with the cart down a different hallway taking care of other patients. We’re you planning to tell my mother she was going to have to wait? Did you have a plan for how to get her medication at some point? I was freaking livid. Is it really too much to ask for common human decency?
I asked what time can my mother expect to get her medication. After not getting an answer I found another nurse and after much attempt at calmly asking finally had to resort to saying I will not leave you until you have meds in hand and in her room.
This was one day after we had an issue with nursing assistants who cannot remember that they can’t grab my mother by her broken arm every time they have to change her brief. I have to remind them every single time they change her when I’m here. She had an incident overnight Friday night bad enough that the Nursing Director came in on her day off to talk to the staff about how to care for my mom and then ask us if we wanted to make a police report. I declined the police report for reasons I don’t want to share but insisted that the problem be solved and that I should not have to tell them not to manhandle a fractured arm that is clearly in a sling.
Sorry. Finished with rant.
to all.