Alzheimer's Blogging:

Well it was a full moon and a very eventful shift. One call was messed up. We got called for chest pain and brought this patient to a hospital whom put her in the lobby instead of a room. Just an FYI, just because a ambulance brings you to a hospital, doesn't mean they can't put you in the lobby with everyone else. So this patient sat there for 4 hours before they looked at her. They gave her a GI cocktail and sent her home. We came to pick her up and the patient told us she was still having chest pain. So after we loaded her in our ambulance we took her to a new hospital. Another FYI if you must get a second opinion.

On a pleasant note we got a patient in his 80's with Alzheimer's. We were bringing him back to the Nursing Home. He had fallen and both eyes were black and blue with a cut on his temple. Anyway his wife was waiting for us at the Nursing Home. This male patient is in a lock down unit for Alzheimer's / Dementia patients. But his wife is next door in a assisted living. So she told me they had been married for 60 yrs and she gets to have all her meals with him. I love the fact that this faculty has a place for the both of them to be taken care of and they can still be with each other all day long.

We only live once, so live, laugh, and love.
Sincerely,
Marie Fostino
Alzheimer's A Caretakers Journal
Seaboard Press An Imprint of James A Rock Pub., Co.
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