05-13-2016, 07:29 AM
(05-12-2016, 06:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may have saved my father's life.
I got a call from the nursing home about 8 AM EST stating that my father was showing signs of circulatory failure -- discoloration of his knees -- due to dehydration and malnutrition. I was asked whether I wanted to have the nursing home 'make him comfortable' or send him to the hospital. I went to the nursing home with my dog (the dog has a right to know if the end is nigh for a loved one, I suppose, as he got to know for my mother), and my father responded more to the dog than to me. But he did face me.
I am not writing him off. I decided to send him to the hospital so that he could be treated for the dehydration and malnutrition. Guess what happened? The hospital took him off Fentanyl, and he started moving his legs about.
"Make him comfortable". I am glad that I could read between the lines on that piece of Orwellian deceit.
Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
It's too bad that Dickens or Hugo isn't around to relate such a nightmare. You have seen it from me, from someone with practically no literary talent.
Good to hear!