When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
When you get a call at 2AM and are told by a staff member of the nursing home your 102 year old aunt is residing at, then you prepare to hear the end has come. My cousin got that call and was told our aunt Vi had fainted and could not be revived. "What should we do?"
What should we do? Now, wait...you are a nursing facility---what do you THINK you should do? No DNR on file---call 9-1-1 HELLO?! Of course my family is thinking stroke or heart attack.
Anyway aunt Vi spent 4 hours in ER and had every test known to man (Hearing this from my cousin reminded me of my recent stay in ICU where the tests never ended until I said, "ENOUGH.") and the final verdict was a urinary tract infection. (Funny, that was one of the first tests they did on me in ER, must be common---who knew they could be so dangerous? I have only had one in my life! I can only guess that same is true for aunt Vi.)
Aunt Vi is back now in her care facility, but I keep wondering why they couldn't help someone who fainted? The more I get involved with hospitals, doctors, care facilities, the more I wonder how certain events are handled so strangely. And HOW did she get this infection at a skilled nursing facility? Hmmm
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