As some of the other TM'ers have found out when being in a skilled
nursing/rehab facility and required more care than others - you don't
always get it.
Another thing that makes me angry on reflection is that , though i
was paralyzed and had TM,
I was a lot less work than a lot of other patients. I was younger
than 95% of the other residents,
I could communicate. I was easy to contain and maintain from a
nursing standpoint. They only had to help me move from place to place
and teach me how to move. Having upper body meant that no one had to
feed me or dress me or wash me -- they just had to get me to the food
or the shower. If they were better resourced, my falling in the
shower wouldn't have happened-- that happened with an
unassisted transfer from a wet shower bench into a sliding wheel
chair (I'm falling i said as the aide stood and watched me fall)
at home as in the hospital -- i don't do wet transfers-- I use a
shower wheelchair so no more going from
wet to wet.
One of the things I would love to fix is nursing homes.... think
tank? Lobby? there's a guy who has developed new kind of community
for nursing homes, healthy... but they are few and far between and
require $. for me the prison analogy holds --- people are supposed to
be rehabilitated, but they are most often warehoused.
--
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth
and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and
for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -
think of it, always."
Mohandas Gandhi
