Finally I've improved my attitude to care-takers or nurses.
(1) Another senior old lady aged 85 or 86 died early morning this Tuesday , i.e. 3rd, Feb., 2015.
Before her, there have been 3 or 4 dead on the same floor (2F) where there are 16 beds in total
I'm not afraid of the death, but it's the hardship Dad has to suffer from a long tube, the sucking, the milk feeding, liquid infusion or injection (IV) and being moved hard every minute, every hour or everyday.
(2) Their age are from 44, 59, 50, 52 till sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. The youngest one is male, 44 who had an accident on a construction spot according to the nurse there. He looks young and his legs and hands are shrinking. His legs are tied to the bed in order not to shrink too fast. I saw or heard him crying several times while I went to see Dad. I wiped out his watering one time very nervously because his mouth and chin was covered with his watering which was flowing to his neck. It was similar to my dad. But Dad is more serious than he for Dad's watering is much much more than other 15 patients.
(3) This Tuesday I went there 3:15 pm and found Dad's diaper full of urine. I used to ask the nurse or the care-taker for changing his diaper. I did not do this time. I asked for a clean diaper and tried to change alone. Luckily a care-taker said she did it. I watched her very carefully in order to learn how to change and where to get the clean one for a change.
Satisfactorily I knew how to do it and could do by myself without troubling them again. Thus I can share their job which is tiring. For there are 2 shifts a day. Each shift has to take care of 50 patients or so including the 2nd floor and the fifth floor. Day shift is from 8 am through 8 pm, the other is from 8 pm till the following morning 8 am. For lunch or dinner, most of them cook in the hospital. It's hard to reproach or ask them about changing diaper or getting rid of watering all over patient's mouth, even neck or face.
(4) In half an hour, I sucked Dad's watering every 3 or 5 minutes. Normally, the patient would get the suck one hour before or after a meal. The nurse and care-taker has been complaining or telling me about Dad's watering which is much much more than any other patient they have seen or taken care. I left at 5:45 pm.
From now on, I don't worried about too much watering. Watering is also a phenomenon of metabolism in addition to urine or shit. A almost paralyzed patient has been lying in bed for years. How can they have any movements for metabolism?? My private doctor told me to pat his muscle and to let him sitting. On my own, it's hard for me to hold him sitting or patting all over his body. I can only do it partly. As to let him sitting, it's harder.
I have inquired my brother if we can try to make Dad sitting for I've seen Dad can breath without the breathing device - Air sucking device, for a few minutes. They did not refuse, nor nod.
(4) I am happy to be relieved from troubling the same things whenever I go to see Dad. I can do much much more than the first day Dad moved in from ZhongIng Hospital, Banquiao on 17th, December, 2013.
Bless me and you all. Cherish What We have now.
5th, Feb., 2015
(1) Another senior old lady aged 85 or 86 died early morning this Tuesday , i.e. 3rd, Feb., 2015.
Before her, there have been 3 or 4 dead on the same floor (2F) where there are 16 beds in total
I'm not afraid of the death, but it's the hardship Dad has to suffer from a long tube, the sucking, the milk feeding, liquid infusion or injection (IV) and being moved hard every minute, every hour or everyday.
(2) Their age are from 44, 59, 50, 52 till sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. The youngest one is male, 44 who had an accident on a construction spot according to the nurse there. He looks young and his legs and hands are shrinking. His legs are tied to the bed in order not to shrink too fast. I saw or heard him crying several times while I went to see Dad. I wiped out his watering one time very nervously because his mouth and chin was covered with his watering which was flowing to his neck. It was similar to my dad. But Dad is more serious than he for Dad's watering is much much more than other 15 patients.
(3) This Tuesday I went there 3:15 pm and found Dad's diaper full of urine. I used to ask the nurse or the care-taker for changing his diaper. I did not do this time. I asked for a clean diaper and tried to change alone. Luckily a care-taker said she did it. I watched her very carefully in order to learn how to change and where to get the clean one for a change.
Satisfactorily I knew how to do it and could do by myself without troubling them again. Thus I can share their job which is tiring. For there are 2 shifts a day. Each shift has to take care of 50 patients or so including the 2nd floor and the fifth floor. Day shift is from 8 am through 8 pm, the other is from 8 pm till the following morning 8 am. For lunch or dinner, most of them cook in the hospital. It's hard to reproach or ask them about changing diaper or getting rid of watering all over patient's mouth, even neck or face.
(4) In half an hour, I sucked Dad's watering every 3 or 5 minutes. Normally, the patient would get the suck one hour before or after a meal. The nurse and care-taker has been complaining or telling me about Dad's watering which is much much more than any other patient they have seen or taken care. I left at 5:45 pm.
From now on, I don't worried about too much watering. Watering is also a phenomenon of metabolism in addition to urine or shit. A almost paralyzed patient has been lying in bed for years. How can they have any movements for metabolism?? My private doctor told me to pat his muscle and to let him sitting. On my own, it's hard for me to hold him sitting or patting all over his body. I can only do it partly. As to let him sitting, it's harder.
I have inquired my brother if we can try to make Dad sitting for I've seen Dad can breath without the breathing device - Air sucking device, for a few minutes. They did not refuse, nor nod.
(4) I am happy to be relieved from troubling the same things whenever I go to see Dad. I can do much much more than the first day Dad moved in from ZhongIng Hospital, Banquiao on 17th, December, 2013.
Bless me and you all. Cherish What We have now.
5th, Feb., 2015
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