Today the home health nurse came out to attend to the pressure sore on my husband's shoulder. We had used this agency before, so I had a good feeling about whomever they would send to our home.
Don't crucify me for saying this particular thing, but it always freaks me out when any "health" care professional is barely able to fit through a doorway. I declare! Sweat was beading up on her upper lip in breezy 60 degrees, just from walking from her car to our front door! She practically shuffled to our sofa. I remained positive and tried to overlook all that.
When asking all her questions about his activities of daily living, medications, and so on, she kept interjecting lengthy descriptions of her own health problems (and by the way she was 40 years old - she let that out to)! Then when she asked him about his pain level, my husband told her his ALS had atrophied his upper body so much that he was in constant pain and it was never below a 5 on the scale. This was her response: "Try living with diabetes and asthma!" OMG! :shock::shock::shock:
I thought my husband was going to levitate from his chair! He looked at me and back at her and back at me again indicating she was absolutely nuts!
This woman wouldn't shut up about her health woes. Then, wait for it.......when she took his vitals, she said, "You'll live." HUH?
After trying to explain to her numerous times about ALS, in between her dribble, I think she was highly insensitive to him as a patient.
Needless to say, I called the administrator at the agency after she left and told her that I was sure this person was a very competent (NOT) nurse and a very nice person, but her negative attitude upset my husband and we did not want her back out! She apologized and assured me she would send someone different next week.
He doesn't normally get negative when people are negative with him, he usually tries to turn it into a positive. He was so upset after she left that he had to go to bed.
It never ceases to amaze me, the level of incompetency found in the health "pros!" :evil:
Don't crucify me for saying this particular thing, but it always freaks me out when any "health" care professional is barely able to fit through a doorway. I declare! Sweat was beading up on her upper lip in breezy 60 degrees, just from walking from her car to our front door! She practically shuffled to our sofa. I remained positive and tried to overlook all that.
When asking all her questions about his activities of daily living, medications, and so on, she kept interjecting lengthy descriptions of her own health problems (and by the way she was 40 years old - she let that out to)! Then when she asked him about his pain level, my husband told her his ALS had atrophied his upper body so much that he was in constant pain and it was never below a 5 on the scale. This was her response: "Try living with diabetes and asthma!" OMG! :shock::shock::shock:
I thought my husband was going to levitate from his chair! He looked at me and back at her and back at me again indicating she was absolutely nuts!
This woman wouldn't shut up about her health woes. Then, wait for it.......when she took his vitals, she said, "You'll live." HUH?
After trying to explain to her numerous times about ALS, in between her dribble, I think she was highly insensitive to him as a patient.
Needless to say, I called the administrator at the agency after she left and told her that I was sure this person was a very competent (NOT) nurse and a very nice person, but her negative attitude upset my husband and we did not want her back out! She apologized and assured me she would send someone different next week.
He doesn't normally get negative when people are negative with him, he usually tries to turn it into a positive. He was so upset after she left that he had to go to bed.
It never ceases to amaze me, the level of incompetency found in the health "pros!" :evil:
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