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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-hospital Rant
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:53:48 -0500

An update; I went to see my mother yesterday, after her surgery on Tuesday afternoon. She wasn't doing well; total mental confusion. She couldn't say anything that I could understand...she often has trouble finding the right word, but usually could describe the thing she was refering to. Not this time...random words were coming out. At first she didn't know who I was (I'm not sure she ever did...I think she thought I was my sister). I spoke to the nurses (their attitude is that she's a "confused older woman"), she was eating well, so I guess they didn't care what she was babbling. I also spoke to her GP who visited her. He said that "older people get like that when they are taken from familiar surroundings"...but she's been there since Sunday and was normal up until the surgery. It was a night and day difference before and after the surgery, but I seem to be the only one who sees that.

I finally contacted the hospital administration with my concern that she's had another stroke...she's acting exactly the way she did when she had her stroke. The head of nursing called me back and said that she would "look into it" and call me before they transferred my mother to the rehab center. She thinks it's just the lingering side effects from the anesthesia. If is IS another stroke, rehab might be better than the hospital for her anyway.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Anti-hospital Rant


By-pass the floor and go straight to administration. Tell them that you are
fully aware of how the Medicare system works and that if they don't
straighten up and give your mother the appropriate care you will be making a
demand for a FULL (important word to use) Medicare review of the WHOLE
hospital and its care of patients. Further, you want to know when the next
QA Committee (Quality Assurance) meeting is and that you demand to be put on
the agenda.

Inform the head of the medical staff, they should have a medical director,
that you will be filing a complaint with the state medical board if care
does not improve immediately.

And, you are correct about clots, etc. Further, every P & P (policy and
procedure manual and all hospitals have them) that I've ever seen calls for
*immediate* treatment of a compound fracture! That doesn't mean wait two
days, that means getting an orth surgeon called in to do emergency surgery!
This is particularly important in the elder when blood flow is a problem and
the longer you wait the more likely you are to further compromise their
circulation.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>


Since the list is slow this morning, it's time for a rant. My mother, 92
years old, fell on Sunday morning and broke her arm. I saw the xray in the
ER, and it's a bad break, jagged, and open, with a large chunk of bone
detached and off to the side.

She was admitted to the hospital from the ER Sunday afternoon, and they
have
done NOTHING for her yet. I watched the nursed change her sheets and roll
her over on the broken arm...my mother was screaming in pain, and they
just
say "I know it hurts, but we have to get this sheet out from under you".
They wouldn't feed her in case the specialist wanted to rush her to
surgery.
As far as I know, she's had one or two meals since breakfast on Sunday.
The
specialist didn't even look at her until Monday evening, and they didn't
schedule surgery until 3:00 today. She could starve by then.

Isn't there a serious danger of a clot causing embolisms or aneurisms with
an open break? She's been trapped in bed since Sunday morning, so her poor
circulation is further challenged. Is that any way to treat an old lady?
Why I hate doctors and hospitals. I call/show up and throw a hissy fit for
them to do something for her, but no one pays attention to me...I'm just
"that crazy daughter".

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

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