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the truth about nursing homes

may 9 2010

this blog was created out my ongoing frustration from living in a nursing home

where to start in general todays nursing homes are not your grandfathers nursing home in general they are cleaner but have become dumping grounds for unwanted parents, relatives the mentally impaired how i wound up in one is simple i had a strike on 1212/07 and after exhsusting all my funds for home healthcare i was forced to go to a nursing home at age 52 my first reaction after becoming aware of my surroundings was i was dreaming and if i could just wake up everything would be as it was the dreamstate was induced by what turned out to be a very bad urinary tract infection of which i have now had several and it is amazing what an infection like that can do to your mind ok so to make a long story short im in my second nursing home called heritage healthcare in venice florida and it is about the same experience as being in the movie one flew over the coocoosks nest and i play the role of ack nicholson im far too young and mentally alert to be here each day i am sorounded by old people and mentally incompetent residents who are yelling, screaming adrift in the halls in their chairs ther to be pushed from part of the building to the other so they have a change of sceneryif you think mom or dad or cousin is being treated with dignity you are dreaming and put them here to alieviate your guilt about not wanting to take care of them and as long as they get three squares a day s bed to sleep in and their diaper changed theyll be ok and if you visit them once a week or at all your conscious wsill be free tske a couple steps back andpay aunanounced visit so youll get the real experience or better yet spend one night in such a favility snd ask yourself wold you ever want to live in those conditions or would you rsther be taken out behinf the barn and mercifully shot. these are facts i have to deal with everydayand they are not pretty on last parting shot for todays blog stay away frommy nursing home and do not ever consider placing someone you know or love here. especially if they ar under 70 and mentally alert!