 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 939 | This is hitting home really hard right now as I just sprung my Mother out of the hospital before they killed her.
I feel like her stay the last week has been a combination of Clockwork Orange, Hotel California, and Alice in Wonderland as we slugged thru a ton of miscommunications, mistakes and just sheer stupidity. And this is supposedly a good hospital with all this touchy feely..make the patient important stuff but...... while they were making sure that they greeted her each time they came in the room, the background stuff that was so important to her recovery was totally screwed up! And this is with two of us (one an RN) staying 20 out of 24 hours with her trying to watch over her. SCARY!
Makes you wonder how many patients die because this goes on.
Deb
Deb..caregiver to husband, age 63 at diagnosis, former smoker who quit in 1997.
DIAGNOSIS: 6/26/07 SCC right tonsil/BOT T4N0M0
TREATMENT START: 8/9/07 cisplatin/taxol X 7..IMRT twice daily X 31.5.
TREATMENT END: 10/1/07
PEG OUT: 1/08
PORT OUT: 4/09
FOLLOWUP: Now only annual exams. ALL CLEAR!
Passed away 1/7/17 RIP Bill
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