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I am depending on agencies too. Although agencies and dependence is indeed an oxymoron. Seems like
all they wanna do is bitch & moan as to WHY they can't provide help.
The 1980s work ethic in home health was sooooooooooo nice. At least 95% nicer than nowadays.
The whole work ethic in general actually like what Larry Willis (I think it was him) just described when he
was a kid - work was WORK.
Most of my aide's "other" jobs are to sit and chit chat with older people. So jobs like getting a quad
dressed is HARD WORK. Geeeeeeeez. Although my new Mon, Wed, Fri aide said she was glad
to finally get a patient (me) to put to use her C.N.A. *skills*. She's one of the few :-(
My husband is my "life raft." If he was working ... he'd be called home so much that he'd be fired.
Lori
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Date: 06/16/05 19:00:15
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L]
I wish I could pay for a private caregiver. I'm on SSI and its hard to get by on it. I hace to depend on agencies for help. How do you ever make it. Wheelchair Warrior[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
" Guess what my CNA didn't show and they can't find her. So I'm sitting here in my night gown. Has anyone has this happen to you. What do you do?"
This is why we keep more than one caregiver and divide up the hours among them. Then if one can't show up we can call one of the others.
We don't depend on agencies for help or we'd never get any help. We hire privately from the newspaper and get the burned out workers from the agencies.
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