Teppy, WTF?!? That is so awful. Much ~ma for Tim's dad.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
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sj - Nov 07, 2021 4:33:53 pm PST #10461 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Laura - Nov 07, 2021 4:46:49 pm PST #10462 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Sending lots and lots of~ma for Tim's dad.
Steph L. - Nov 07, 2021 4:49:53 pm PST #10463 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tim's been at the hospital with his dad all day (and is still there) -- my understanding is that they do think it's a stroke. He was transferred from the ER to a room, and I'm not sure how long they'll need to keep him. I guess that depends on how his recovery goes. Tim said that his left arm is doing better, but he still can't lift his left leg.
I suspect he's going to need more advanced nursing care when he leaves the hospital, and while his current assisted living facility has that capability (they offer different levels of care based on residents' needs), I really don't want him going back to the place that fucking ignored his stroke symptoms and sent him to breakfast instead of the hospital. I have zero faith that a higher level of care would be any better, given that the baseline level of care seems to be fucking negligent.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2021 4:52:12 pm PST #10464 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy shit, Steph. I would be livid.
Steph L. - Nov 07, 2021 5:04:12 pm PST #10465 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Holy shit, Steph. I would be livid.
Particularly with stroke, there's a small window after symptoms start (I want to say 5 hours?) where administering tPA is extremely helpful, so literally every minute counts. But instead of getting him treatment they fucking put him in a wheelchair and took him to breakfast.
I don't want to jump immediately to yelling "LAWSUIT," but I kind of am. Because that is horrifically negligent.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2021 5:43:52 pm PST #10466 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just heard from my EMT friend that the window is much larger than it used to be, but it's surely not days.
lisah - Nov 07, 2021 6:15:56 pm PST #10467 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
That is some bullshit "care" Steph.
askye - Nov 07, 2021 7:12:09 pm PST #10468 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I'm so sorry that happened to Tim's Dad Steph. I mean, one reason he is in a nursing home is so that someone will be there for when things like that happen and you don't have to worry about your parents' questionable judgement about when to go to the hospital. I mean, if the parents have questionable judgement (like mine).
yeah that is bullshit care.
DavidS - Nov 07, 2021 7:27:33 pm PST #10469 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just don't understand how caregivers in a nursing home wouldn't know such obvious symptoms of a stroke. Strokes and heart attacks have to be relatively common events with an aged, infirm population.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 07, 2021 9:29:50 pm PST #10470 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That really seems negligent. I am so tangential to healthcare, but because if accreditation need to be able to articulate stroke symptoms and treatment on demand.