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originally posted by: yuppa
Looks liek negligence to me. Sorry for your loss Bob. su e them.
originally posted by: Owlwatcher
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
I share your pain, anger and frustration. We're dealing with my 95 year old mother's health crisis right now and things look dark. backstory. Right before Halloween she became ill and we took her to the ER. After a few days of tests they said she had a staph infection of the spine and there was virtually no hope for recovery. This came about less than 3 weeks after getting a flu shot at her PCP. They said to stop treatment and to make her comfortable. We said No, continue the antibiotic treatment. She stabilized although she was greatly weakened from the illness. She was transferred to a rehab and again we were told she'd never recover enough to come home. After 2 months treatment the staph infection was gone and she was just starting to regain her strength and stamina. Then she tested positive for Covid. She had minimal symptoms which I credit to her never having been vaxxed. She continued to recover and get therapy. She was walking with a walker . Looking forward to getting better and coming home, at least for a day once she could handle stairs. The staff reassessed her prognosis and were now optimistic about her recovery. Then right before New year's she had a seizure. Facial ticks and muscle spasms in the hands. Unknown cause, although they did say she had a UTI. A brain MRI and cat scan showed no stroke. A repeat MRI of the spine showed no remaining infection of the spine. What we're dealing with now is just extreme lethargy and lack of responsiveness. We think it might be the medicine, Keppra and another anti seizure med. We've pushed to reduce the dosage and they have, but we're still at a loss as to understand what caused the seizure and if it will continue or what's causing the lethargy. All we can do is pray. Was it Covid, the UTI, the flu vaxx? Pray for us, please.
originally posted by: stonerwilliam
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
Breaks my heart reading that Dave, I know the anger coming through those words dudem.youtube.com...
The above video got me a 4 month stay in max security years ago when I kicked of in a local care establishment !!! .
I really do feel your pain and anger at what they put the love of your life through , 18 months ago I visited my Aunt / big sister , who had just had her leg removed along with a lot of others due to clots and found her in tears as her pee bag was full as were' others and was all over the floor and she told me that staff were either to busy or agency who refused to do it as it was not there job to ???,
I got a bucket and mop cleaned up the mess , found a nurse who was maybe planning her next tik tok video twiddling her thumbs and asked why this was happening , foreign staff who could barely speak a word of English was one main problem that day .
I dropped my name to this nurse and watched the colour drain out of her face , I might have suggested I was going to return with Mr sten gun later on and they really would know what staff shortages felt like .
True story but the care of the many many people having amputations seemed to improve very very quickly there after .
My deepest deepest condolences .
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!