Hospital Page 42

Ohhhhhhh...   What a day and you have chronicled it so well.   Amazing (but sadly not) that you were able to get up and down and change your oxygen without anyone noticing.    How could they throw out your McDonalds?  Oh my...   This all makes me so sad (& angry) for you and for all of the human beings being cared for this way - some, who as you noted are in really bad shape.   With no one to advocate for them and unable to get up themselves.    I like how you used the patterns and put this page together.  I bought Laura's Askew Templates, but was unsure of how to use them, you've done it so well.  

@MariJ - Yeah that was the hardest part for me.  Not that I was being mistreated but knowing that everyone else on that floor was experiencing the same level of care and that I was probably the healthiest and most lucid which is why I felt I had to say something about it.  I came there to work on physical therapy.  I met the physical therapist one time.  I had occupational two times.  We only used the walker outside the room one time in the days I was there.  Obviously, there was no therapy on the weekends.  In hindsight, I feel like a couple of more days in the hospital and I probably could have just been discharged to home.  Also, very proud of myself for being able to get up and titrate my own oxygen.  I don't mention it but it really started to throw the staff off.  Because I couldn't put it back down obviously.  So the nurse or respiratory would come in and they would be like hmm... I thought I turned that down.  Then I got to chuckle to myself because they were so confused.