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SassyBetsy

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Symptoms of cellulitis worse not better. Got better then worse.

I was told the facility doc was coming in tonight and it was a no show. They called another one of their docs who said no referral to go to the ER. I never talked to him,they did. They said they would xray my foot to see if it was broken. Wtheck! It might be when I remove it. So I called my doc triage line and she ran through a list and said she was sending a referral over to the ER recommending that I go. I am waiting for ambulance transport to the ER now. I sit in the nursing station listening to them talk in their language so I feel so not supported or cared about. On top of it, I have lost the key to my clothes locker so I have to take my stuff over. I will need to deal with that later. I wanted a combo lock then I could forget the number and look at it written down somewhere. Now I trust someone has the extra key.

 

Why do they say no ER when the triage nurse I talk to says go and hurry? Is there so much difference in how the story is told? My trust in them here is nill. One man here lost a leg after his stroke due to thrombosis. Scary stuff. Believe me,I would rather be sleeping warm than dealing with this whole situation. But I think better to go and it is nothing than to suffer later. BossyNurse is peevearooed. In fact they all act as if I am a hypochondriac. Well, I am one with referrals and diagnoses.

 

This makes me feel so alone. To be sick and worried and literally laughed at. A young RN,newly made supervisor, chuckled and said ,"for that?"when I said I was going to ER so please set up transport because I have a referral. I am not really hypochondriac.

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Jayallen

Pam you are never alone, all of us scarecrow heads are always here for you. Lol. praying for you.

Kwei fighting, it will make bissynurse butz.

E well.

Jay

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scottm

You have a referral to go to the ER from the docs staff. They can't even be bothered to staff adequately. You are obviously dealing with petulant children in adult bodies.

 

Also, This has bothered me since I read it yesterday. Their position that your roomie has the right to sit in wet soiled diapers may be true but you also have a right to live in sanitary, non-offensive conditions. If that means they have to isolate her because she is a biohazard, they just have to eat the expense or fix the problem.  The conditions you have described constitute a health hazard that I'd expect any public health dept to balk at.

 

Just my $.02.

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SassyBetsy

Thank you Scott. I laughed at the biohazard part.

 

Open the door to a nursing home and welcome to a dog and pony show with lots of smoke and mirrors. The lobby of this 5 star rehabilitation center has beautiful furniture,candeliers,a baby grand some staff plays on weekends,a rehab room with bells and whistles that looks better than the used back room, and most importantly:a fan and filter system blowing and it also hits the VP suites and admin offices. For those of us living in the bowels of the building,it reeks.

 

As for roomie,she has no complaints because she claims to be dry,she is worried they will make her wear a catheter and she is enabled by lazy staff more than happy to skip changing her. I witnessed staff lying about the care they do and I bet the charting is a fiasco or reflects she refuses. Anyway, the dept. Of health interviewed me in my room. But urine smell in a SNF is not much to fuss. Except if you are me.

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