Random Thoughts

[arewethereyet]

Got to love an impossible situation at work that I'm trying my best to make easier on myself. On the split, some rooms in one hallway with other rooms in another hallway. Most other employees won't answer a light from my rooms, which means I'm doing more walking back and forth on bad knees than anyone else.

Then someone from corporate who doesn't know shit about how reality works, well this person wants me to go answer other people's lights a mile away from where I'm assigned. Mind you, those employees are in their hallway and ignoring those lights.

No sir, I'm not doing that.

While undergoing cancer treatment and having had a couple small strokes, my dad was in a really bad vehicle accident.  Husband and I drove out to NC to scope out what was going on with him.  We were met by a nurse griping that dad had thrown his IV pole over during the night and he needed to behave better...on top of everything else his left hip was crushed and his left arm useless.

A bit of digging on my part found that he had called the nurses with his call button about a half dozen times.  They were trying to respond through the speaker.  (Mind you, he was deaf as a post.)  I wanted to know why he had to call so many times before someone walked to his room to see what was going on before he used his last resort of throwing the IV pole to the ground.

Head nurse finally showed up.  We got an engineer to check the speaker/call box thing and it was faulty.  I was livid and nearly frothing at the mouth.  

The laziness you describe is a thing, especially at night when there are no visitors.

This was followed by me explaining to the nurse that she needed to speak up so he could hear her and she made a sign, hung it up above his head and then went back to damn near whispering.  Not to mention, she REFUSED to call him doctor no matter how many times I corrected her.

We did run into some absolutely excellent health care professionals along that journey but we came across more that were in the wrong line of work.