Major accident

I havent been here for three months I missed you all I had a server accident I fell in my living room floor and was in a lousy nursing home for three months,it wa s awful elderly people dont get treated with no respect I was one of them,meds were always late and when I yelled about it I would get into trouble well let them have to sit without there meds for 8-12 hours sometimes more,i never would wish a nursing homeom anyone.i had broken mybleft knee in two places .some of the aids were nasty.I got treated badbly because I suppect it was because I had anxieties.I did cry when left because I made friends with bout three nice people ads of course.sorry I havent been around I miss and love yhou all

Welcome back xmascarol! Sorry to hear about your fall... as well as your nasty nursing home experience. (Your description of the nursing home brought back memories of my time on psych wards.) Anyway… hope you're healing well. I'll look forward to seeing more of you here in the forums over the coming days.

That sounds horrific. I'm so sorry you had to go through such a very difficult experience. But you are home now, so yay!!

That sounds terrible -- great to see your back though.

OMG! I am glad you are back too! Bless your heart, what an ordeal for you. Bet you're happy to be back home!

As a nurse I watched the corporate takeover of medicine in this country and it is a disaster. It is all about the money. I worked with aides who were more than full time and still qualified for benefits. And I worked with people who never should have been nurses or aides to begin with. But I have worked with far more administrators (apologies to all you good people out there doing your best always as I tried to do) who have no understanding of what is needed to adequately care for ANY population (children, the elderly, the chronically ill, and now I hear Hospice is doing next to nothing these days since Hospice Houses don't make money, private/corporate Hospices don't have them and the family is expected to do Everything to the last at home. That is great for some but for many it is a terrible burden and a source of shame for both the caretaker and the patient.....Never mind Mental Health resources or places for people to detox and live in safe conditions....we are riding down the slide again (this is reminding me of the ugly scenes exposed in the 60's an 70's that prompted about a decade of progress...
shut me up I could go on forever. just women's work, anyone can do it...
Myself, I hope to either drop dead, or be able to walk off down a favorite wilderness trail...and in some places, those who get kicked, kick the next person...
There are settings in which you cannot meet the needs of your patients in a way that you feel really good about. Oh, meds, impossible to be on time when 25-30 patients are scheduled to receive multiple medications (slow, fast, crushed, floated, injected) at the very same time.(while answering the phone, setting up for an admission or return from dialysis, helping aides get folks to the toilet, meals on an unalterable schedule...
I go to med/surg and I got 3-4 patients at the most. All supplies bedside. And yet I know those nurses work hard and also suffer shortages.
And I LOVED my work, and was lucky enough to work through about a decade of amazing progress and professional growth/along with hands on work. I got to do so very much....now I am looking at volunteering...
so sorry for xmas carol ...sure she didn't ask for this ramble but I can't help posting at the moment.

I fell twice this week today was a freak accident I was trying to reach for something and I fell.this is so scary .

please do be careful. No reaching. Take your time, safety first. ((((((((((((((hug)))))))))))
Let your doc know if you think this is medication related---or if it could be. Get help if something is out of reach. (I know, it's so easy to get by 'just one more time'...).

Thank you all for your responses,well guess what I went to reach for a knitting needle and I fell again flat on my butt I called 911 and they helped me get up.i dont need any bad falls do not want to land in the nursing home again,everyone there said I was not going to fall well big surprise know it all I fell 2 times already one were flukes.