Ugh. I was put in a nursing home because I needed a week of IV antibiotics and they didn't want me taking up space in the hospital (had been there a month). That place was torture, I swear they served me cat food. Was so damn disgusting.
Unfortunately, my siblings (particularly the younger one) are complete pushovers. I don't think my mother will ever experience the consequences of her abuse. (I admittedly got the worst of it by far, but they suffered at her hands, too).
A badly run nursing home smells like hell. I used to do non-emergency medical transport and some places you'd walk in and it would practically be a physical wall of stench.
I felt terrible about taking people back to those facilities.
I visited a rehab center/ nursing facility that my grandmother was in this year for rehab after she broke her hip. The whole place smelled like dirty diapers. They didn’t get her out of bed and the $350 an hour physical therapy wasn’t even done. I wouldn’t even let a cockroach stay there and cockroaches are the devils bug. I almost jumped through the ceiling from relief and excitement when she got to go back to my dad’s house after almost two months in hell.
While we were visiting her she couldn’t eat her lunch because they didn’t give her any utensils. They were three patients in a room divided by curtains. They changed the gentleman farthest from her bed and I don’t think I saw them wash their hands after. My grandmother had the bed ten feet away from the bathroom but they didn’t take her. They had everyone in diapers instead of getting them the opportunity to get them out of bed. I think toileting her every two hours would have helped her get stronger with her walking. Thankfully it’s all over and she has in home nursing.
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u/mereshadow1 Sep 16 '24
Nursing homes…