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Sep. 7th, 2018 04:57 pma couple weeks ago I think I wrote about my cousin who gave me a terse response when I asked about her niece who was in the hospital. Well, today I received a text from the niece's Mom (the niece is my young cousin) saying that she only just got a text I sent about a week ago. She also updated me on the health of her daughter. She has been home for 8 days (i knew that) and has lost around 80 pounds (in less than a month), and just finally was able to put on a pair of flip flops and walk a few steps. Their insurance would not cover rehab so they took her home and built a hospital bed out of an old sofa (HUH?). She is still rather emotional, but getting better and her stamina is coming back....
I felt like a shoe. I did not comprehend how sick she was. 80 pounds in less than a month!!!! I sent a response telling the mo that I was sorry that I did not understand how ill her daughter was. I had thought it would have been like having killer kidney stones, but once they could get rid of them that you would feel better (not go home disabled).
... and now I am so angry with my cousin's response. She said that she really had no time for the neice as she knew she should have taken care of it earlier... I thought it was a pissy comment when she said it, but I am livid over the self centered attitude she has developed. It's a good thing she wasn't in work... I would have thrown my phone at her head!!!!!!!.
and on the other side...the woman who sits next to me kept getting calls from an office it the hospital her husband is at. The trouble is that they changed our security so that we cannot receive all outside calls. My Dad can call from his factor, but we cannot get calls from certain hospital numbers. The phone will wring and you will pick up... and there person on the line can hear you frantically saying hello, but you cannot hear them. There were 10 calls. I gave her my cell phone... If was heart breaking to hear her call out to the person on the phone... It turns out that our insurance will not pay to let the husband die in the hospital. They want to shift him to a place 2 hours away from her home...and she does not drive. She was hysterical. I just grabbed her and hugged and let her cry. I cried.
The guy boss (the one I like) came over... she said what was wrong. He asked her to come into an empty office. He told her about his brother who died last year and how they tried to move him... and just how the family stalled that move so he could die in the hospital.
The trouble is that the hospital will not give a time frame for the death... could be tomorrow could be a month. They told me that my Mom would have maybe 10 days, but she went in 3.
I came home and hugged my cat.
I felt like a shoe. I did not comprehend how sick she was. 80 pounds in less than a month!!!! I sent a response telling the mo that I was sorry that I did not understand how ill her daughter was. I had thought it would have been like having killer kidney stones, but once they could get rid of them that you would feel better (not go home disabled).
... and now I am so angry with my cousin's response. She said that she really had no time for the neice as she knew she should have taken care of it earlier... I thought it was a pissy comment when she said it, but I am livid over the self centered attitude she has developed. It's a good thing she wasn't in work... I would have thrown my phone at her head!!!!!!!.
and on the other side...the woman who sits next to me kept getting calls from an office it the hospital her husband is at. The trouble is that they changed our security so that we cannot receive all outside calls. My Dad can call from his factor, but we cannot get calls from certain hospital numbers. The phone will wring and you will pick up... and there person on the line can hear you frantically saying hello, but you cannot hear them. There were 10 calls. I gave her my cell phone... If was heart breaking to hear her call out to the person on the phone... It turns out that our insurance will not pay to let the husband die in the hospital. They want to shift him to a place 2 hours away from her home...and she does not drive. She was hysterical. I just grabbed her and hugged and let her cry. I cried.
The guy boss (the one I like) came over... she said what was wrong. He asked her to come into an empty office. He told her about his brother who died last year and how they tried to move him... and just how the family stalled that move so he could die in the hospital.
The trouble is that the hospital will not give a time frame for the death... could be tomorrow could be a month. They told me that my Mom would have maybe 10 days, but she went in 3.
I came home and hugged my cat.
