Are you ready for the next installment in what I call The Hospital Ordeal that plagued my cousin and me? Here’s what happened next.
Aren’t You Done Yet?
Sometime during hour 2 in the chilly Emergency holding-pen (like the public were cattle), an impatient nurse dumped a pee bottle on the bed. She demanded my out-of-it cousin produce a urine sample on command. Many folks can’t. Graphically,Read More
Just when I thought I was “done” with hospitals on the heels of my father passing away almost five years ago, I had a recent “opportunity” to re-experience this horror-filled reality. Yikes is the only (polite) word to describe our treatment – or lack thereof.
My cousin needed to be hospitalized in the same institution that housed him in 2003. To say the place has gone severelyRead More
Let me briefly describe this Baby Boomer couple. In his seventies, he has a 95-year-old mother and is largely responsible for her despite having a sister. In her sixties, my only-child friend has a mother aged 81; her father is 83. While having no children together, he has a son and daughter in their thirties.
In one 24-hour period alone, ALL three parents faced serious health crises. Two were emergencies! In my experience, their woes are typical of those in the Sandwich Generation. And, their plight is about to become a whole lot worse.Read More
Could you relate at all to my last post on the horrific eldercare hospital crisis? I’m certain more than one of you could.
Can you stomach another medical example? They’re truly rich and ripe for the picking.
Then, allow me to recount this story about how a carefully-orchestrated procedure unravelled. Remember, we’re still in the series about not deluding yourself that your trials have ended once aging folks are located in a facility of some sort.Read More
As British Prime Minister Winston Churchill so famously commanded during World War II: “Never, never give up!”
So, I shall not. Building on the shocking statistics concerning elder abuse I shared last time let’s see if today’s information strikes an alarm bellRead More
