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Sometimes, a good doctor can forget or greatly minimize the positive effect of a family visit. The eye contact from someone who knows you and cares about you is priceless.
The same can be said about a caring touch.
I’m not speaking of when the patient is hot with fever or displaying symptoms, but when they are clear and at rest.
I have an older family member in the hospital, and she needed
surgery. Her life hangs in the balance, and family has not
been allowed to visit her.
Mental outlook is crucial to recovery. Leaving these types
of people “abandoned” during time of crisis is darn near
criminal treatment > IMO.
I realize they are having to minimize possible infection,
but then provide video conferencing or something.
Going into surgery these people need every bit of uplift
they can get. NOW!!!
And at the same time hospitals are bemoaning that fewer people are coming to the ERs and that people are putting off medical care.
Law of unintended consequences, anyone?
My dad passed last month. He almost died alone but my mom was the one visitor allowed in. She was with him in his final moments. I can relate. Not only for deaths but any hospitalizations, it’s important to have some one by your side
Someone needs to sue the hospital on their behalf over this. It’s wrong on every level.
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How cruel and evil.
My oldest daughter gave birth to my tenth grandchild a few days ago, and no one was allowed to visit except her husband.
They must be following the lead that nursing homes set, kill the patients in secrecy.
Bill Gates said this shutdown was just a proof-of-concept.
The next one will be for good.
This is sick. I will never forget who perpetrated this hoax on America.
Covid 19 has caused so much destruction
Thank to the commie Chinese who exported it to the world They allowed flights to keep going to the west, even while they were closing down internal flights in China
This lawyer driven bs is happening from coast to coast.
A woman, we know, had a mother in a NJ Nursing home, the woman lives on the west coast. She got notified that her mother was transferred to a hospital with pneumonia. The woman was told not to come there as she could not see her mother. Her mother was sent back to the nursing home after a couple of days. She was sent back to the nursing home and was put on Oxygen and inject able narcotics. She died after a few days. He daughter was told not to come back as her mother had signed a cremation order. Supposedly, there would be services in May, none yet. Supposedly, her mother had a Covid~19 diagnosis.
A long time church friend was in a high end west coast retirement home and on the care unit with Parkinson’s. On 14 March, his wife, son and daughter were told they could not see him. He died a couple of weeks ago by himself. His wife made sure that he did not have a CV-19 diagnosis.
Another church retiree in his early nineties in the same retirement home was not sick, however, he could not have any live contact with any friends at the senior home or visitors. He told a church caller, that he was dying of boredom and loneliness. He died in a few days after being contacted. He was not ill.
A friend had an emergency spinal cord surgery. He was in the hospital for 5 days and couldn’t see his family. His wife picked him up in the parking circle. She couldn’t come into see him during the 5 days. A couple of days latter, he had to have an emergency gall bladder OR.
Again, his wife dropped him off at the ER circle drive and didn’t see him for another 5 days. Again, she picked him up in the parking circle.
A friend had a knee replacement cancelled in late March. Last week they had his wife drop him off in a drop off area.
They checked his temp and admitted him. His wife said good bye in the parking lot.
He had a successful operation and still had to spend one night in the hospital. He was discharged the next day at about noon. His wife still could not come into the hospital.
They rolled him out in a wheel chair and loaded him into her car. She is a recently retired same day care RN at that hospital. She asked the surgeon, a friend, why all the drama and not sending her husband home the first night. The doc is known as the champion same day Ortho surgeon. He just dodged her question.
Tell them you have Covid and they’ll let you in
I hate this.
Only the precious COVID gets preferential treatment with doctors and hospitals.
And regardless of your medical issue, you’re swept away from any direct contact with your relatives, etc.
This touches me too cloasely as it is. My dad died on Thanksgiving. Thank God he didn’t die alone thanks to this nonsense. So grateful some 30 people were able to stop by exactly because we feared he would die.
Then I was terrified when my mom got sick around Easter. Does she need to go to hospital? How much should we push it before doing so? If she goes, everyone recommends ambulance to spare her the extra agony of huge waits in the parking lot due to COVID concerns. But then she will be taken from us forever, perhaps, either way.
Luckily mom got by, but then her friend HAD to go to the hospital and was taken from her family and us. She was very sick with pneumonia but it was not COVID. She did manage to barely coherently listen on a phone. Midweek her sons and my mom had to try to explain to her that they could not be with her (she was really mentally impaired from this). And thank God, she got back home a week later, and she is better.
It’s bad enough being concerned about your loved ones, without being able to check directly or console or reassure them in person.
This is happening to everyone. Three close family members died the same week,all alone, and their children were devastated that their daily care for their elders stopped once the parent was hospitalized. These sick elders died alone with no hands and hearts of loved ones around.
It’s a crime against humanity to deny people a goodbye with their loved ones. WHY THE F DO WE BUMP PEOPLE FROM PLANES TO GET LOVED ONES TO THE BEDSIDES OF DYING BELOVEDS?
Because we know that it’s the highest priority. Higher than being there for the birth.
All for what is basically like a flu which also kills seniors. There is no precedent for avoiding the dying. It would be understandable if the illness were Ebola with many cases coming from funerals and also a 50% death rate. Corona kills 0.2% at highest.