Well folks it's been awhile since my last entry, and a rant is over due. This is another personal rant that has to do with my granny's health and a hospital that needs to go back to schooling.
As always everything remains anonymous for safety and privacy reasons.
A lot has happened lately concerning my granny's health so let me begin with the beginning. A few months ago, probably around October, she was having severe back pain that resulted for an ambulance to be called on multiple occasions but the doctors only gave her medicine for the pain, until it kept continuing where they had to hospitalize her with a diagosis of something concerning her vertabrae in her back is not alighned. So she was put on bed rest and kept going back-and-forth between deciding if she needed surgery or not. They finally made a decision of no surgery due to her age. It was weeks of them "deciding" this and sending her back and forth between Carilion hospitals. Then they decide to put her in a rehab-nursery home to help with her back since she would need constant care.
I won't go into much detail about how certain members of my family reacted since that's a different rant, but about four of us (counting myself) thought her staying at a nursery was a good idea. However, my granny was devastated. I understand she would rather be home, but she's not going to get better at home since she doesn't have constant care as a hospital-type of place. That being said leads us to her ONLY staying not even a month at the nursery home after some nurses made her feel nervous about not helping her at night. So back home she comes which lasts only a few days before she's back in an ambulance again. This time the hospital finds sores and ulcers on her back from where she was laying completely on her back for so long after she stayed home those days. They put her in a different nursery home this time where she stayed a month but her health started dropping due to not eating and her mental state was in depression. Again rushed back to the ER for her dropping of health.
So a few weeks ago we get the horrid news and a new diagnosis of a kidney disease type three, where the doctor didn't even tell us! My aunt had to call him just to learn about what he diagnosed my granny with! Don't doctors supposed to tell you this kind of stuff? Apparently he must've forgot since we learned from a nurse instead of him. Well we go on trying to improve my granny's mental state and begging her to eat. She was literally so depressed that she had no appetite to eat. Then my aunt had a good idea for the doctor to give my granny some kind of appetite inducer so she can eat, but he refused it! He then diagnosed her for the THIRD time where they found a blood disease and literally told my family bluntly "If she lives through this she will only have six months to live." NO compassion whatsoever in his voice, not even a sorry for the trouble we will go through, NOTHING! What happened to doctors helping their patiants? I understand about being realistic but you don't have to be an asshole about it. IF you're going to give devastating news least be compassionate about it! But no, it was like he was telling there's no more pie but without the "i'm sorry". It was nothing to him but another client.
Well we tried holding ourselves together and keep hopeful as we visited my granny and try to continue getting her to eat and break her out of her morbid state. A few days later she starts improving and eating. Finally! However, from her medicine and something the hospital did made my granny spooked where she speaks about a "death room" and how the doctors were "counting down the moment of her death" one night. They really scared her, and we believe some of her story is a result of the meds she's on since one of the side affects is confusion and dillusions. I do believe my granny, but when she calls home at 11pm yelling at my mom to "bring my wheelchair!" because she's "heading there! Heading home!" and repeating over and over about her wheelchair. But, all is getting better now.
This week she's scheduled to be transferred over to another, a better, nursery home named Trinity, which she will be arriving soon this week. She's eating better and her mood is becoming more positive, as well as her health. But this rant isn't over yet, because one "head" nurse does something to piss us off. A few days ago a group of people headed into my granny's room to talk about her health, and one person was this "head nurse" who wasn't even scheduled at all to be on my granny's floor. The nurse had nothing to do with my granny at all, but this lady decides to put her opinion into the mess. She clearly states that my granny isn't going to make it since she's been in the hospital for the third time now, and how bad a place Trinity is since all "nursery centers are the same". Well my aunt calls this nurse out on her stupid opinion and shuts her up making her leave the room. Oh but doesn't end there. That bitch waits for my aunt to leave to head on home (which is like few hours later) then enters my granny's room to tell her about "making a plan" when my granny dies. What kind of person does that?!
First off, that nurse has no orders whatsoever to be in my granny's room, and nonetheless to tell her opinions to us. We are aware of granny's health, we dont' need you to remind us that she's going to die someday. Someday but not today! Secondly, that's very immature and rude to wait until my granny was alone to tell her something like that and get her to make a "plan". A plan like that is between family members, not random strangers! My granny needs positive support, not some random nurse telling her she's going to die. I could care less about how many years you worked at the hospital or that you are the "head" nurse, you are a lousy nurse and a bitch if you tell an 80-year old woman she's going to die without any hope. Fucking do your job healing her! And not to mention you are not even one of the nurses that takes care of her so get away from my granny! We swear if she continues we will contact the hospital for harassment. This is the worse hospital for poor hospitality. "hospitality" a word that comes from hospitals, doesn't it not? Ironic since this hospital is the worse when it comes from that! They took three times to diagnose over a three month span, and two failed nursery homes, and bunch of doctors who live in different cities, and a bitch of a nurse. If that nurse continues, we will file harassment on her to stop her. She has no right to bother a patient that doesn't concern her.
But, thankfully, she has a better doctor then those idiots, that pulls her spirits up and knows what he's doing. And this week she's being moved to Trinity where I heard it's a good place. Most importantly her health is improving, even slightly, it's improving, and her mental health is getting better despite that bitch nurse. I know one day I will my granny, but right now she's here and I'm going to hope with all my heart she will remain with us much longer than that "diagnoses" of her dying in 6 months. Miracles happen, and I'm just happy my granny is improving. Though I do ask everyone who reads this to keep her in your thoughts or prayers to continue getting better. I love my granny so much.
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