come on now....you can speak for your father...stop acting like hospitals or nursing homes are some evil killing stations and you have no say.....at any time you can ask the nursing home doctor for more pain or anxiety relief for your dad.....quit blaming well meaning people....
“come on now....you can speak for your father...stop acting like hospitals or nursing homes are some evil killing stations and you have no say.....at any time you can ask the nursing home doctor for more pain or anxiety relief for your dad.....quit blaming well meaning people....”
I don’t blame people. I blame process. Three days ago he came down with shingles. the pain from that combined with his COPD pain made things worse. They can only give you so much pain meds per hour. Once it wears off you have to wait. I know the Tylenol was a poor stop gap and there was nothing else they could do, and that is what pisses me off.
They could have given him Vicodin in between his morphine, but they said they are not allowed to do that. I was going to bring him my own supply of Vicodin but that violates the agreement with the home.
As for well meaning people, unfortunately some are, some aren’t. Three times they “forgot” to reconnect him with his oxygen supply. At that point I had to move him to a new facility. Their excuse? Quote, “They aren’t an oxygen friendly facility.”