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How Many 90 Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?

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How Many 90 Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?


I must be a weakling...only 12.

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BUCKYLE;1391656; said:
I think I broke it's hip.

30. That number seems low.
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Intro to my Sunday. I get a call Friday, "This is the nursing home, we can't have a seat belt on your mom's wheelchair because we are reviewing our restrain policy".

ME: "I don't care, I want her to have one, she needs one. What if I fax you my consent right now, 'cause she'll fall out without one, and she cannot survive a surgery if she breaks a hip."

Nursing home: "No, you need a Dr.'s order first"

Me: "So you have been doing it w/o a doctor's order for a year and only call me now on a Friday afternoon to say you are stopping it?"

Nursing home: "I'm just calling patients' families to convey the new protocol."

Me: "Good. I usually like a few seconds notice, that was kind of you to give me like - five."

Fast forward to me getting phone call at hardware store with kid about 1:30 Sunday.

Nursing home: "Hello Mr. Ubet, I'm calling because your mother has apparently fallen from her wheelchair and we are taking her to the hospital because she may have a broken hip."

Seven hours later we find out that she badly bruised her right hip, but did not break it. She looks like she went two rounds with Rocky, because she landed face first, but she is fine, and came back to her room at the home Sunday night. But I'm p.o.'d, so I meet with the Administrator, Mr. Dumbass, Monday morning.

Me: "I'm concerned because my mom fell less than 48 hours after an out of the blue call where I told y'all she needed her seat belt on her wheelchair, and now, when I come in this morning to check on her, she is in her same damn wheelchair with no damn seat belt. She is lucky she did not break a hip because of her fall yesterday."

Mr. Dumbass: "You know, there is a lot of misinformation about hips breaking, because most people fall because they break their hips, not break their hips because of falls. The break is caused by osteoarthritis and a lack of dense bone."

Me: "If you are telling me that you people think it is OK to bounce my 84 year old mom's hip off the terrazzo floor because she did not have a broken hip on the way down, I can't guarantee your safety for the rest of this meeting."

Mr. Dumbass: "No, no, I just....what'd you say?"

It got more interesting for the next ten minutes.
 
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BuckeyeMac;1391750; said:
So did you kill the guy in those 10 minutes?
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Nah, he eventually went into his "we take this very seriously, and it is our goal to preserve their dignity while we see to their safety" act, and he sort of inched toward the door saying, " I can see that you are very upset, but we need to keep our cool and he would make sure that they would make things right ..what did I want?"

I told him that it did very little good for his first response to be dismissive of my concerns about breaking her hip when the ER doc said he could not believe the outcome of the x-ray. I said I was not concerned about his overall restraint protocols, or some statistics about somebody else's hips, but only about my mom's case, her falling, and her continued fall risk. Everything else was unimportant and not subjects that I cared to hear about from now on.

I said that I was here to only talk about what happened today and yesterday, and what we had to do to see that it never happens again.

He called in the Director of Nursing and started to make the right kind of noises. Asshole.

edit: there was an interim me-cussing period where I went on about the no notice, that they did not give a shit about patient safety, about how they either fucked up not getting a Dr order or they fucked up taking it off without my input, that it was "unwitnessed", and that I had no proof that she was not beaten up and thrown to the floor my one of his 300 pound CNAs, that he could not either, so if his best story is that they mishandled the restraint protocol, then they are screwed, and the internet can get word to the entire market that they are a bad investment for your loved ones safety, if he wanted me to make formal complaints against the place to get a response then we could save the time and I'd get right on it.

I had to take a breath eventually, and by that point he had figured out that it was not a brush off meeting. I think this is one of the few occasions where you are allowed to act with a little ass showing.
 
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