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Update from.....Izzy
lighter:
--- Quote from: Izzy_*now* on January 25, 2014, 06:19:42 PM ---
My own sweet place awaits me still, with an email program to reinstall, and receipts to post to my account (checking out my POA's abilities, eh?) and once again take on the care and control of self (with paid help.)
Iz
--- End quote ---
OK.
Izz.
I don't understand the above.
But it's concerning.
About the rod in the brace with the cup and the hinge.....
that is nuts they send an unqualified person, to you of all people, and have her mess with you, under protest, until she snaps something important. Absolutely they should pay that bill, but I wouldn't waste a day in that facility holding my breath for it to happen.
Get yourself home, rest a bit, then get them to do the right thing, and pay that bill.
::crossing fingers::
You're almost there.
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
Thanks twoap
and lighter
If I have a Mon a.m. app't at Orthotics at the hospital, I could be discharged in the p.m.
If I have a P.M. app't I might still get out, but maybe Tuesday a.m..........cannot count my chickens.
I will be glad to be on my own again, so I can get up in the middle of the night for bathroom, lie down when I want. I cannot believe the carelessness to have broken my brace but they have accepted responibility and are even paying for my taxi trip to and from Orthotics, BUT their rules are that I cannot be discharged without the brace being fixed, and I wouldn't want to---I'd be so afraid of a break of the new bone.
Someone comes along and requires my bed raised, as they have A SORE BACK OR SOMETHING, BUT DON'T RETURN IT TO ITS NATURAL POSITION, so I have to use my call bell to have some one lower it, as my space is crowded to access the remote, to get back into bed. This makes me dependant, but if they just thought for 2 seconds, lowered it for me when finished they could relieve themselves of ministering to me, and relieve me from asking for help all the time.
Lighter, I pay Karla and Ellen as before, and with a wound care nurse, I will have at least 3 visits per week yet still can look after myself as before.... is what that meant. Karla left receipts of my expenses of the past 5? weeks, on my desk. I can post them to my account on the computer, and tally what this fall has cost me. My email program is not working at home. I just have to reinstall it.
I just emailed a grocery shopping list , with instructions convenient to her, to Ellen.
This monster of a 'chair is making my back ache---need my own but wouldn't trust it overnight in here. I hear the hospital is now locking up the wheelchairs. Remember my damaged one was stolen in March, 2009?
Love
Izzy
Izzy_*now*:
Well....
I'm home now for 2 days Monday noon to Wednesday 5:30 pm and have survived.
Ellen and Karla fulfilled the necessities, and the wound care nurse came today when Karla was here.
When Cathie saw the sores under my knee brace she was "Oh Good Grief", along with Karla who stayed to help her minister to that leg.
Cathie is going to report this negligence to who/whatever the ET is, a Head of Wound Care, I suppose, on the ladder. She says this "Should not have happened".
The instructions were to care for my leg encased in the brace, EVERY day, and now (I haven't seen the pictures she took) the open wounds wrap around my ankle. From what I knew only one on the inside ankle side, it was open but no one told me about the length of it. I immediately thought "amputate" and could see my foot gone and cried, but she said she could fix it. My! She was good and kind. (Might anyone remember that about 2007-8 the nurses tending to a heel sore, when a visiting nurse told me I was going to lose both legs? It was the same immediate reflex shock to me!)
This is horrendous for me.... to know that so many of us don't know the protocol. When I rang for leg help and no one was available, I sensed the more I rang the more I'd be ignored, because I appear to be about 60 and independent. These places are understaffed and the available staff is hardened to their lot in earning a living, I guess.
There was a time after Pauline broke my brace when I was bed or chair ridden that, if no one helped me with my leg in and out of bed, any transfer, I have to stay put, or risk breaking the new bone being laid down. I had been in bed so long once that when I rang for help and the 'gal' (nurse? caregiver? cleaning lady?) came she said she couldn't help as she was busy but then went for another worker, and the two argued because they were busy with other people, and I said that for the length of time Two of them argued, One could have held the brace while I transferred--- that doesn't sit well. I cannot believe that happened in a short stay area of a permanent stay facility.
The Occupational Therapist said, when I was leaving, that she knew I would be better off in my own home. She was a quiet, thoughtful gal who observed and thought before she spoke.
Don't ever get old!
Love to all. I spend every moment tallying time, what I ate, drank, what caused this, or that, counting pills, timing visits with someone's appointment here---
Izzy
moonlight60:
Dear Izzy,
So glad you are home.
Love and Light Always.
p.s. Getting old is not for the faint of heart...
that is what my 90 year old Dads says.....
Moon
Twoapenny:
Izzy I'm glad you're home and glad that this lady Cathie sounds great but my word! What about some of those others??!! I'm so sorry your leg is so bad again. Sending healing thoughts your way. There seems to be an unfortunate trend in the Western world to find ways not to help people instead of getting in there and making sure they're comfortable and have everything they need. Your OT sounds good. Keep focusing on looking after yourself and I am crossing my fingers that you will get a restful, healing period in now.
(((((((((((((((((Izzy))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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