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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (34325)	5/19/2010 5:24:56 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

Sorry for the long winded philosophical stuff lately. Hopefully a little forbearance is justified all things considered. Hi Karen, Thank so much for the kind words & your prayers! Smart of you to mention getting a cot. That thought came to me tonight when I overheard a nurse saying she was trying to find an adjustable chair/cot for the father of a 12 week old baby in intensive care. If Mom stays in the ICU I'll request one tomorrow. It would go a long way to make it easier for me since they usually are quite adjustable. "Am so sorry to hear about your Mom....And you too....You just simply haven't had an easy time of it lately for sure" LOL! Pot calling the kettle black Karen? Like you, I've had my ups & downs, but in the end we do our best to take the lemons & make lemonade. Few folks know intimately that although "Being in the hospital is hard.... that there is good work being done on your behalf", they simply are not a place to get anything remotely resembling rest. Worse, they are not designed to be practical for folks with advanced arthritis, DISH, neuropathy or any other pain management issues. That goes for both patient & visitors with those issues. IMO, ER's are even worse. Forget the 24/7 noise issue. Forget the 1, 3 & 5 am wake up by nurses for things as stupid as checking to see if you are sleeping OK, or worse, waking you to ask if you want something to help you sleep. Forget the parade of 259 doctors each day just so they all can charge some time to your bill. Forget that most tests & procedures are torture devices for the average human. Creature comfort & hospitals don't seem to exist in my world. Hospital beds often cause back/neck/joint pain to folks w/o pain issues. The only time I've slept soundly in one was due to IV narcotics that compare to morphine like morphine compares to aspirin. I'm batting a thousand lifetime in pain inducing hospital beds. And visitors chairs are mostly an afterthought. Great for keeping the number of visitor hours down. Too bad for the folks who are there when life hangs in the balance. Although it's been tough on me, Mom's got it worse. She is on OxyContin & barely tolerating the pain. If only someone would create a utopian health care system that worked to perfection at a reasonable cost...... "Has your Mom had some issues before this?" Yes. The last 10 years it's pretty much been one thing after another. First it was transient ischemic attacks [TIA]. Though she started having them in her early 50's it wasn't diagnosed or treated until her early 70's [carotid artery stenosis]. The TIA diagnosis was made after a diagnosis of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). That eventually led to a diagnosis of blockages in her heart arteries. Her arthritis really manifested itself much later in life for her than me, but it's now worse than mine & I'm diagnosed as disabled from it. Then in her mid 70's came adult onset diabetes. Last year she had a heart attack. FWIW, that's the list of the most major things only :-(