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Somehow the discharge planner got crazynurse to agree to go to one of the places on my "rancid shithole" list. But apparently they sold her on it because it was a rancid shithole with an on-site dialysis unit.
And let me tell you, it is a rancid shithole.
The first floor is mainly administrative, but the first thing you notice is a strong uriney stench.
And there's carpeting.
One of my ambulance guys told me, "never go to a nursing home that has carpeting."
I do not know why this is true, but it is.
Nobody from her family did a site visit. Her sister saw it for the first time when crazynurse was admitted there ... and is already working to find someplace that isn't that bad. AND she's going to do site visits this time.
Unfortunately most of the not bad places either want better insurance or significant amounts of cash money.
In the meantime, crazynurse is so despondent she's wondering if having had the surgery was worth it, and occasionally talks about just giving up and discontinuing dialysis. Most people last less than a week. I smacked her and told her she's overreacting. She's only been there two days and so far they haven't done anything awful TO her, it's just a genuinely awful place.
They've got patients lined up in geri-chairs in the hallway with several different kinds of movement disorders.
There are some good, efficient staff there, but the ratio of good to lazy-ass is about 1:3.
Tried to get her into the place where my mom was, but they don't take patients with a wound vac.
Oh, and I stood up for my whole visit. She kept telling me to sit down ... I said no, I'm fine ... until finally I told her the truth.
I don't sit on upholstered furniture where there are people with incontinence.
Or scabies.
I particularly don't like scabies.
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