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Joint Replacements | Last Active: Jun 3 8:02pm | Replies (24)

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Thank you, Cindy. 🙂 It’s been a long 10 days here in the nursing home partly because I see and hear how residents are neglected. One lady with Alzheimer’s repeats herself over and over like a parrot. I heard a nurse yelling at her to be quiet so I got my walker and went to talk to the poor lady. She’s rolled into a hallway and left alone for hours. I spoke to her and patted her shoulder which helped calm her down. Another lady down the hall screams on and off all night. The call button station down the hall sounds like a fire alarm that needs batteries. It only stops wailing around 2 am. Sometimes no one shows up for a hour when you push the call button. The new resident across the hall doesn’t understand the call button so I have to get a nurse when he starts yelling “Help!” The manager appears to be permanently attached to the chair in her office. Most frightening is reading that this is one of the best nursing facilities in the county. 🙁

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God bless you BabyPanda for your compassion to the other patients. The facility you're at sounds very similar to the one I was at for the short period. I'm glad you were able to have the spacer put in so someday you can have a new hip. My infection was too bad, dead muscle and bone that had to be removed and spacer was not an option after the surgeon got in there. All my hardware was removed and just left with a femur and part of a pelvis (Girdlestone). I'm learning to get around with walker and crutches, but I'll never have a hip joint again. I'm on life long oral antibiotics now from my Infectious Disease Dr for chronic osteomyelitis. Hopefully you can find a pattern for sleep during these next few weeks you are in this facility to help your body heal. You'll be in my prayers...God bless you.....Cindy