All TOO familiar! And it seems to be getting worse. The last time I was in our local hospital the 'special' call button they gave me fell on the floor ten minutes after they installed it and nobody knew how to fix it. I wasn't moved off my back for twenty hours. Nor was I fed or given anything to drink. Thank God I was only there for a day!
Dan V At 10:11 PM 10/3/2006 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something that elicited my response: >After 31 years as a quadriplegic, I don't even talk to doctors that think my >life will improve after a stay in the hospital. I'm sure they have learned >tons in the past ten years but I also know they can give me a preasure sore in >under a half hour while they discuss a miracle with an associate. Going to the >hospital is like choosing a bride at a whorehouse. It's fun at first but they >can't do the day to day stuff. When they say they can, they are lying. > >I do like the food at hospitals, they way it sits across the room by the door >slowly getting cold and then the aid asking why I didn't eat it? The >wheelchair accesable bathrooms that have a four inch step over into the >shower. Teaching 4 new people every day to use a hoyer lift, or the way my >bowels move freely while a nurse wanders the hallways in search of someone >else to do a digital stim. I do love the solid hour of privacy that I get when >I press the call button after waiting 3 days to get a call button I can use. >Waking up to the sight of eight student doctors that have a combined IQ of 72. > >I'm too old to be a teaching object for doctors that are more interested in >the stock market and their teachers that aren't going to miss another 10 am >tee off. > >Does any of this sound familiar? > >john
