Every day when I go to visit mama in this new
nursing home it gets worse & worse. Today I went to visit & she
was a little better (a little more alert) than yesterday which
indicates that the new breathing treatments are working well & not
knocking her out as much. So I go & get dad bring him back to see
her when I notice that she has a new patch behind her right ear. It
looks familiar like the scopolamine
patch she had once at the hospital that made her quite sick. The
scopolamine is on her allergy list. They are never supposed to give it
to her. So I walk down the hall & ask the nurse "What is the patch
behind her ear?" She looks up mom's med list and says "There is no
medication on her list that is a patch. It must not have been put on by
us. Well she has been there since Thursday last week & if she
hadn't been cleaned by then & the patch removed that's pretty sad. I
had also been checking behind her ears everyday & I do mean
EVERYDAY.
It wasn't there last night. So I told her that I checked her ear
last night & it wasn't there. How does the patch get on her if
there are no orders for it & it isn't in her med list? And she says
"Well I don't know because I didn't apply it" That's it. Just not my
problem because I didn't apply it. No ideas of who I should take it up
with. Nothing. So I said I am going down & removing it since it is
prolly the one she's allergic to & there are no orders for it. Ok?
She said sure. What else could she say? So I am walking around with
the d*** thing on the end of my finger like an idiot not thinking of
what it might do to me when she suggests I do something else with it. I
put it on a paper towel intending to drive to every pharmacy, even an
ER to ask if someone can identify what has been on my mom. I had to
drive dad back to his nursing home & when I got there I asked his
nurse if she knew what it looked like & she said scopolamine. The
Fentanyl patch for pain is usually whiter & the nico???? patch is
larger. This she said was the one from the allergic med list from the
hospital. All I know is no wonder she hasn't been acting right since
she got there. God knows what else they have been administering w/o MD
orders?
I have been trying & trying to get her in another
nursing home with no success so basically this place is going to be
allowed to harm her. I am not finding many options.
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