Saturday, May 26, 2007
That Is It!!!!
Today was the day that the straw broke the camel's back. The care that my gram has been receiving has done nothing but go down hill from day one. She is being treated with such disrespect and utter disregard for human life. The nurses that work at Loretto are the most incompetent people I have ever come across in my entire life.
This morning my gram sat in the bathroom for 40 minutes waiting for someone to come in and help her. Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the call buttons there to alert the nurses that someone needs help?!? Apparently no one told these sorry excuse for nurses that. After that fiasco,she never received her breakfast this morning. She spoke to my uncle at 10:30am and said that she still hadn't eaten. She hadn't eaten in almost 24 hrs because last nite she didn't get dinner! She asked for toast and gingerale because she wasn't feeling well. They said no problem. Want to guess what they brought her? Fried chicken!!! And then when she said that she couldn't eat that and told them what she had asked for she was told to "do what she could with it"!!!
When my uncle Todd found out about all of this he exploded. Anyone that knows Todd knows that he never gets riled up. He did today. He told the head nurse exactly what he thought of her and her nurses. She was told that she was to do whatever she had to to get my gram out of there with full Medicare coverage or he was going to get the tv,newspaper and lawyers on their asses so fast that they wouldn't know what hit them. He had the head nurse in tears. Good for you Todd! She apologized up and down but it is meaningless. He told her that my gram needs food with her pills,which she wasn't getting. He asked what would have happened if she had fallen or was choking and no one came for 40 minutes. The nurse had no answer. Todd did..she would have died. He said that they were killing her. And to prove his point,in the middle of the conversation,my gram said that she didn't want anymore meds or food and that she just wanted to be left alone so that she could curl up. That is not my gram at all. They have her so physically and mentally beat that she wants to die.
After all of this I get a phone call this afternoon that my gram was going back to the hospital via an ambulance because she was bleeding heavily and she had fainted. Her bp is very low and that is dangerous. They are going to admit her and hopefully the gynecologist will get to check her asap. We know that she will get the care that she needs there because she did before. She had real nurses at St.Joe's.
I hope that this all works itself out soon. I just don't know how much more we can all take,especially my gram. We are all trying to be so strong but behind closed doors it's a different story. I have been beside myself with so many different emotions. I am a wreck. But I have to be strong for my gram and for my kids. I hope that everyone will continue to keep us in their prayers. It looks like we are still going to need them.Labels: family
