[Mygirlsmom]

Thanks. His doctors are top notch, but he has so many complications that the specialists don't always know what to do with him....they only know about their "part" and one treatment often sets off problems in another area.

One of the biggest challenges is he cannot lay flat...ever, so everyone who provides care, from the nurses to the transfer aides needs to be told.

He nearly died a few years ago from a routine colonoscopy because someone came along while he was in recovery and put his bed down flat. He woke up choking, and ended up in ICU with aspiration pneumonia.

[DustyMoment]

OMG!! I’m glad that your dad survived the idiot who laid him flat, but that’s scary. This is exactly a situation in which paper records kept in his chart at the foot of his bed are far more necessary than the razzle dazzle of highly vulnerable digital files.

With a paper record, they can put a note in big, bold letters on the front not to lay him flat. Even a moron would have a hard time missing that note.

Prayers up.