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Update from.....Izzy
lighter:
Izzy:
I'm curious.....
if you put yourself in place of the overworked staff at that facility...
what changes would you like to see take place in order to remedy some of the problems you identified?
How would you deal with the identified issues, and would it be cathartic for you to put it on paper, and mail it to those in charge, and responsible for the way things run?
Honestly, it seems like they're running the place on a triage basis, which I guess it is, but it was more than that, IMO. You're wounds were cared for in a fashion that could lead to amputation. That;s not acceptable, or should't be to anyone involved.
That sounds like a law suit, or would, in the US.
Perhaps you can't sue in healthcare matters in Canada, but it's a terrible recipe for disaster if there are zero checks and balances. What if you had to have a limb amputated bc of improper wound care?!? That seems egregious and preventable, though I have no idea what the solution would be.
As always, I'm sending healing light and the hope things continue to get better every day.
It sounds like you're on the mend.
Lighter
Hopalong:
I curse indifference in caring for the vulnerable.
SOOOOOOOO angry.
I also feel for overworked and underpaid staff, but missing the basic empathy to not neglect?
I just can't stand it.
I'm so sorry Izz.
I know you'll get better now but it's just inexcusable what they did to you.
love
Hops
Izzy_*now*:
Thank you moonlight and Twoapenny
I am happy to be home and happy that Cathie is a kind person in this maelstrom of people good and negligent mixed together. I generally look for the best and am so disappointed when I find the worst, in a person.
and lighter
I would sue if I lost my leg, yet I would wonder if I could afford to lose the suit. It will give me something to research, as I 'suffered' to win this civil suit re the accident, and would hate to lose it to lawyer in fees for yet another, and wonder if I would have the wherewithall to go through it!
I think triage, yes! lack of staffing, lack of good equipment, bed and chair re me, that has led to neck and back problems, even though I asked them to take the bed topper (skin saver) from the bed. I am so aware that "one size fits all" does not apply in many circumstances I have encountered.
I need something to put
Under my foot
To relieve the pain in my leg.
Maybe under the knee
Is where it should be
but if that doesn't work I'll keep up the search for relief and
Lordy, I sure hate to nag!
I'm surprised that I am taken for 60 when I am almost 75, but that is no excuse to (if that is what happened) write me off as a youngster in an Old Folks facility, whose voice is clear, and it appears I can care for myself. The stuffing has been knocked out of me and I require all my wits and strength to plan as pain-free and unencumbered a day as possible. Karla and Ellen are both experienced caregivers, in their own field, and that is good. Alone is better than surrounded, but sometimes worse, until I see another who is worse off and there are plenty of those.
thank you Hops
I guess it is well known on this board that I don't fully have the faith in myself for fighting the good fight. I am not fully aware of what is needed to do so in the given circumstances, and sometimes dearly wish I had a person who loved me to go to battle for me, who fully understands and can make changes for me and others like me. I saw it with others who had loving family and friends come to minister to them, and naturally these would be older people, who have the time and not tied to jobs to make a living. One woman, 76, had her husband and daughter every day. Another, 83, had her daughter and SIL , plus friends (a couple) who came and stayed a while....and these loving people did hands on ministering and help, plus advocacy.... while advocating for myself led to frustrations/anger that really gets a person nowhere.
I've spent 45 years, come June, being disabled, age 30- 75, and ministered to myself, keeping skin sores away, SO MUCH SO, that I wonder if that was neglecting my daughter? I don't think so, but she did say, "You and your damned disability" for a reason she swallowed all the aspirin at age 12.
Oh my Stop It, Izzy!!!!!
XX
Izzy
lighter:
Ahhhh, Izzy.
Is everything OK with Karla?
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
Ah, lighter
Are you asking after Karla as my advocate?
She is my Rehab therapist, my friend, my POA but never signed on a my keeper, so to speak. I likely present as being too independent for that
I am well aware that she has her own life, with many clients, and a husband who suffers from cluster headaches, who has been ’unemployed’ quite a number of times in the past 5 years that I have known her.
She is also a yoga instructor, thanks to my loan in 2011, and teaches classes at very odd hours, morning noon and night--encompassing all walks of life and their availability to attend classes around their vocation.
She really doesn’t have the time to do totally for me, but is ready at the drop of a hat to be here when she can and assure that we are both being understood, i.e. with Cathie the Wound Care nurse!
I wish she could be an advocate, but I would have to financially support her for taking up her time to “look after” me, but I’m aware that I also want no one to have ‘power/control-over’ me, per se.
She did a good job of keeping track of my finances and I am just now putting the pieces together, which will be complete, I hope, when I receive January’s bank statement. She doesn’t reconcile her own statements so is not as meticulous as I.
If you meant something else, Ha! Please ignore this post!
Love Izzy
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