That is abuse!
It is a very sad testament to our society that we allow our elderly to
suffer such indignities. What kind of people work there, anyway? It is
a shame that we have so many pressures on us that we cannot care for
our dear ones when they become so old. At least we love them. I hope I
never have to set foot in one again, hospital, I mean, or nursing home
either one. But that is not likely, as I have both parents still here
(not right here, but still here on earth). Yeah, it must be Hormel
teaching the nutrition classes- LOL!
Every time I have been in the hospital I have felt much better once I
got home and could eat real food. They probably kill people with the
garbage they serve.
Your mom must have had an amazing life- to live for nearly a hundred
years. That must be some story! But when the body is getting ready for
exit, it has to clean out naturally, so the appetite goes, she could
probably remember to eat, but did not want to swallow it as it was
probably not digesting. The body has it's own wisdom when left to it's
own devices, it seems to me.
Hope your hubby is doing good now...
Kathryn
On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Paula wrote:
Pat,
I don't think things have changed much in the last 30 years. My
husband had an aortic shunt (stent? - get those mixed up) installed.
The doc sent home a dietary instruction sheet. I was absolutely
appalled! It went straight in the trash. Jerry had lost a lot of
weight he couldn't spare and he wasn't supposed to eat any 'real'
food?
My mom - age 93 - broke her hip and was in the hospital for a week,
then rehab (nursing home) for 5 more weeks. The ONLY thing I ever saw
her fed that qualified as food was a banana. I was invited to have
dinner with her one night in the dining room because they said she
wouldn't eat. Some of the stuff they are feed looks okay until you
look closer. What appeared to be a nice-looking piece of ham turned
into SPAM. The minute you tried to cut off a piece it turned to mush.
That went well with the artificial potatoes, artificial gravy, and pea
mush. Jello went with every meal, including breakfast. NO condiments
were allowed. BUT, they had a cart that was circulated throughout the
home in the afternoon that contained things like moon pies, candy, dry
popcorn, etc. The few who had money could buy that crap, along with
things like Kool Aid and 'diet' sodas. I got her out of there as soon
as I could. She then ate constantly and gained 10 pounds. That put her
at 94 pounds.
Skipping ahead to age 99, I was forced to send her back to the nursing
home. When she went there she was being gotten up 3-4 times a day, ate
at a table, and fed herself. During the first week at the 'home' she
was no longer gotten out of bed. It took them 3 weeks to kill her. She
wasn't sick, she was just old. I was there every day. My last visit
was at roughly 4:30 p.m. I thought her face looked funny and she
wouldn't open her mouth. I sorta forced it and her mouth was crammed
full of 'food'. That stuff had been sitting in her mouth for hours and
she refused to swallow it. The nurse said, "Oh, she does that all of
the time!" What do they do? Rake out the old stuff and stuff in new
crap? It took two of us to get the food out of her mouth and she then
drank so much water that we had to make her stop. She died the next
day. My guess is malnutrition and dehydration.
The point being - and no offense to nutritionists - there is no
substitute for REAL food no matter how old you are. Mom didn't reach
that age by accident. She smoked, drank a LOT, and loved vegetables.
She'd make a big batch of vegetables in a pressure cooker and eat them
all week - Yarg!
Paula
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