Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital Sucks

I don't think I can say it enough so I will say it one more time, Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital Sucks. I wonder if what happened today has happened to anyone else when a loved one is at the hospital or is it just this one.

Today I went up to relieve my mom at around 11. They decided not to release my dad today, they want to do some additional tests on my dads kidney's.

They started giving him so medication that is helping lower his potassium level and this medication really messes with your ability to hold your bowls. After having an accident and messing himself all over, I told the nurse and asked the cleaning lady to please come in and clean.

I went ahead and cleaned my dad up and was walked all the soiled linens to a drop and saw the cleaning lady walking off and I caught her. She said she was going to go to lunch and she would be back. I told her, nope I don't think so and she cleaned my dads room then. This happened about 5 additional times today in which I had to clean up the mess even though I told the nurse it needed to be cleaned. So you can imagine how humiliating that must be for my dad. Then about 1 I figured I had better give my dad an ensure since no one came in to feed him all day. They still brought trays of food even though we told them he will not eat it. So pretty much they were letting my dad starve. They also were not coming in to give him his inhaler or breathing treatments. Why? Not freaking sure. They are doing a 24 hour urine sampling on my dad so they have his urine on ice in the bathroom. Well all the ice was melted by 4, so I had to re-fill it with ice even though they said they would do it - and never did. One of my dad's LVN's was supposed to come back with a depends and to clean up my dad...well this bitch never showed back up. She showed up about 2 hours later asking how many bowel movements my dad had. I told her and then I just had to say "Oh don't worry about cleaning him up, I did your job for you." I mean come on. If that was her dad she would be pissed if someone just forgot about him. On top of that when my dad got up to go to the bathroom I noticed his sheets needed changed so I went ahead and stripped the bed and asked for clean sheets.

I just think this is WRONG! No one should be treated that way. I know I am more protective of my dad since this has been going on - but I'm not wrong for feeling pissed off at this hospital. RIGHT????

The last report was my dad's kidneys are functioning at 40-50% and they are still saying he is not a candidate for dialysis. They are running some more test on his bladder and kidney to determine a course of action. A physical therapist came in to discuss PT at home and my dad was interested.

So tomorrow I am going back up at 8:30 so my mom can go home to meet up with some of her sisters and they are going to help her clean house and mow the lawn. I hope my dad gets released tomorrow so he can go home. He is just more comfortable there and he gets better care from my mom and I.