Re: Re: Lynn/Communicating LBD issues to staff members-for Jan O

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Those Mcs breakfast are pretty good. I like a biscuit with mine. At

Denneys I like the grand slam. I can't eat it all of course, but I like it. I

Don't eat those meals very often, Maybe once in several months.

I sure do appreciate the sharing you do with your experiences with your

beloved Jim. I want to be with Don so bad some days I cry a lot. My family

insist

that I am not able, including Don in one of his rare moments of lucidity.

I love you as a dear friend Jan,

Imogene

In a message dated 9/22/2008 2:39:32 AM Central Daylight Time,

janetcolello@... writes:

Lynn, I am so identifying with everything you are saying. I have had a

problem on the phone communicating with some of the nurses. All RN nurses are

mostly from the Philippeans, some are from Kenya, none from Haiti. A few

Spanish

speaking CNAs and some from India, which is unusual since we have so many

Spanish Speaking people in the community and most of the CNAs at the nh are

from India and the Philippeans. I really have a hard time to understand the

ones

from Kenya, but a filipino nurse once tried to tell me over the phone some

tests came back and that Jim had Aspiration Pneumonia, but instead of saying,

Aspiration Pneumonia, she gave me the medical term for it and it sounded to

me like a collapsed lung and I repeated that and she said, " yes " and I flew

over to the nh thinking Jim was in great trouble, but it turned out to be a

miscommunication and I was so relieved. Not that having Aspiration Pneumonia

was

good, but I much prefered it to a

collapsed lung.

They can all speak English, but it is with filipino accent English or Kenya

accent English. They have no problem reading English. They have to be able to

do that or they wouldn't be able to read the doctor's orders and requests.

Lynn, I have a problem with Jim drinking enough liquids. They do not watch

his intake and he will eat his meals and leave the drinks and no one attempts

to get him to drink. After 7PM the kitchen is closed and there are no drinks

for anyone. I bring Gatorade in all the time to hydrate Jim. It has

electrolytes in it too, which Jim really needs. I use a baby dropper or syringe

and

place it to the back of his mouth and plunge it in if he won't take it from the

cup. I can see when he is dehydrated. As with you, I worry more about the

fluids too.

Jim is also like your mom, he does not like to be woken up early, 6:30 or

7AM for breakfast, and is combative when they wake him up too early. Finally,

after many times talking to them about this, they let him sleep until around

9:30 and then give him breakfast. It is cold by then, but I guess he eats most

of it. They give him a warning around 9AM that it will be time for

breakfast in half an hour, so he has time to process it and be ready and it has

worked, I heard. Occasionally, I will bring him a Mc's breakfast and that

is

like a real special day for him to wake up to.

Jan in California

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