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From: Pandora.Nigh@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Pandora Nigh)
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Subject: Nadine - update
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Date: 14 Dec 90 04:36:33 GMT
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   Oh Betty that is terrible, I'm glad she was able to get some help at 
that just drives me nuts that the people that are supposed to understand 
medical problems and prognosis can't be bothered to take responsibility 
for the patient when the are setting them up for home. There is no 
excuse for the doctor, the social service staff, the nursing staff or 
hospital administration for not setting up with VNA for Nadine before 
they released her. I guess we have to be aware and take things into our 
own hands when we get that kind of treatment and ask or call ourselves 
to set up support help. I had a DC a few years ago prior to my 
hysterctomy and Medicare decided that that should be an outpatient 
proceedure. It was a real riot. Ray drove me to the hospital in the 
morning and waited the hour and a half for them to release me. He had to 
go to work and I ended up at home alone. It was terrible, I use my 
stomach muscles for alot of movement and they were so so and spasy I 
couldn't move. I couldn't operate my manual chair because I needed to 
shift weight forward and back with my stomach muscle to get the strength 
to move the chair and I ended up just sitting on the toilet till Ray 
could come over after work. It was terrible. I called my doctor and told 
him if they thought I was going to have a hysterctomy as an outpatient 
surgery they were nuts. He assuered me that it wouldn't be and he kept 
his word, he also arranged for me to stay longer than they considered 
the "proper time" so I could be in semidecent shape to go home. Boy have 
I learned to be cautious about that.
                                   Pandora

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