I thought hospitals were to help you get healthy.

Momma had been living with us for almost a year before she had her heart attack. The dentist told us it was a mild heart attack, however they wanted to keep her overnight, just for observance. He said it was possible for her to have a major heart attack within 24 minutes after the first, & he wanted her in the hospital just in case. All of us left her to their care, promising to return the next morning. I wasn’t intending to bring her condo the next morning, although she begged. They had a bathroom in her room with nothing however a curtain for privacy, and you could odor the bathrooms from the other rooms, because the only thing separating her from the rest of the hospital was another curtain. There was no air circulation, & the room odored. The air conditioning wasn’t working, & it was warm & hot, which added to the odor. The only place I could know air conditioning was at the medical professional’s station. I got a wheelchair & put mom in it, then I wheeled her out to the medical professional’s desk, where it was cooler. I called the dentist & told him to get his butt there. I had the DON downstairs & the head of housekeeping all sitting in mom’s ‘room’. I told them the hospital was supposed to be a place to rest & get healthy. Without air purification, wipe rooms, & good Heating & Air Conditioning, this was a place that was breeding germs & making people more sickly. I packed mom up & took her out of the hospital.

 

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