That's what he gets for allowing himself to get old. If he didn't want ants in his trachea he should have stayed young.

What Willie Lee Simmons may look like.

The programs designed to assist him,
Have clearly and tragically missed him.
So here's what they've got:
A really good shot
To work out the bugs in the system.

Hey, a guy's got to eat.


If you care for an elderly man at a nursing home, one of your most important jobs is to make sure gnats and ants don't crawl up his trachea tube into his larynx

I guess it depends on how deeply you care for him.

JohnAnnArbor: There's always the possibility of maggots in the vagina, too. (new window)

/Submitted that one with some variant of "Maggots in your mom's vagina? More likely than you think."
//Redlit
///not bitter

It's stories like these that made me so thankful that I was able to take care of my folks at home when they were dying. I couldn't imagine having to see my parents in situations like that.
I would never get out of prison for the murders I would have done if someone had abused my folks.

spigi: These people are chronically dead anyway. People should accept that you will die when you get old and not try to get in the way if there is no chance for a meaningful recovery.

I really hope when you get to be that age and are at the end of your life, someone treats you accordingly.

If you care for an elderly man at a nursing home...

What if you DON'T care?

THis is insane... My grandmother and her husband were in one of these a few years ago. She did fine, never recovered enough to live on her own, but it wasn't the fault of the facility. Her husband, on the other hand, he almost died tdue to the gross incompetence of the doctor there. I had to actually take him to the ER from the care facility, it got so bad.

He was on a blood thinner called Cuminin. This is a medication that requires precise monitoring, because once you up a dose, you can't drop it back down. He went in originally to recover from pneumonia. Spent a week or two in the hospital, then transferred over. The doctor tripled(Or more) the dosage of his Cuminin for a different affliction. After a few weeks, he was getting horrible dark splotches all over his body, the doctor seemd not to care, and it took my wife and I and some of the nurses to finally get him to the ER. Turns out, the Cuminin levels were so damned high that his organs were shutting down one by one. If we hadn't gotten him to the hospital when we did, he might has lasted another 2 weeks. My uncle raised all the Hell he could over this ridiculous dosage issue, and NOTHING happened. We should have sued, neither one of us is particularly litigious, but we should have done it for the principle of the matter.

My brother in law is a CNA, and works at a totally different care facility, and they will schedule him to work two double shifts in a row with a grand total of 8 hours off in between. That includes time to drive home, wind down, sleep, get up, eat, get ready for work again, and drive back in. This type of shiat should be illegal from a safety point of view, yet it's not. Also had a neighbor who was finishing up his residency, and he would get 36 hour shifts in the ER. ANd they say our medical system isn't farked.

Obviously, more tort reform would have prevented this.

mcwehrle: Mikey1969: stuff

Coumadin.

He was on coumadin.

Shiat, you're right, now that I see it spelled right. It's been 3 years and a lot of stress, I remembered the main points, but totally blew the actual drug name, my bad... Thanks for the heads up.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: Problem: ants
Solution: anteater

No, most hospitals just use Raid.

You must be thinking of a hospice.