Well we started out at 845 at Dr Suki's office for another blood draw. Two hours later we were still not able to get chemo due to a high creatinine level and potassium level. They asked us to follow up with Dr Pandya and so on and so forth. I had to place a hault and say, something is not right. He is talking out of his head again and something does not seem right so they rushed around and decided he should see the doctor again. Around 11am they hustled us back to a room to wait over 2 hours for the doctor to come in and get orders for a hospital stay. The Sub-Doctor (Dr. Suki is out of town) said my dad's kidney functions were not good and she wanted him to see a nephrologist. One of my dad's nurses took me aside and showed me my dads blood work and said his urine was not toxic yet, but that he was in renal failure. So then around 1:30 we headed over to NE Hospital for yet another hospital stay. After Dr. Suki's office told us we had a room/bed ready as soon as we showed up - what do you think they said. We don't have a room. Urg! How many times can this happen.... Around 5:30 my dad was placed in a room but not in the unit they asked him to be admitted to. They wanted him in IMCU and they placed him on a regular floor. I completely lost it today with this hospital and this will be the last stay we have there EVER!!! During the admission process I had to call Matt and ask him to e-mail over a list of my dad's medication. I watched the lady print a copy, make a copy for my mom, and add it to his admission packet. Then when the nurse popped in and asked for a list of all his meds I told her, we already did that and to find the copy....another nurse came in and asked where a list of his meds are. Finally I said why is this our responsibility...you have it find it. I also sat out in the hall and answered over 15 minutes of questions they asked me about my dad's health and when the nurse switched duty, she tried to ask me some of the same questions. I don't know if she is to lazy to look in the computer but I told her, we already answered all those questions and to basically look in the computer. Then when we told the nurse he was supposed to be admitted to IMCU she actually asked "well why is he not there." I almost flipped my shit. I told her "You tell me." I don't think she liked that very much. I felt like an awful person for getting so frustrated, but enough is enough. Then when I am about to leave this nurse, which I am not so found of stopped I guess to give us a "PEP TALK" She told us that my dad was very sick. We needed to start thinking about my dad's quality of life and we needed to start making the hard decisions about what to do. How dare her... We know this shit. I just don't even think it was her place to start lecturing us. She did not have a kind spirit this time nor the last time we had her as a nurse. I thought people were nurses because they like to help people and they care about people. You find out - that's not so. So now they are talking about moving my dad to the cancer part of the hospital or to IMCU.
I also had to scramble around to get 3 people and a notary to meet me at the hospital in the morning to finish out my dad's will. I was successful in doing so and I am so thankful to all the folks who dropped everything to say yep I will be there, no problem at all.
I hope all goes well in the morning and for now I need to try to settle down and go to bed. It's going to be a big emotional day tomorrow.
The last call from my mom last night was to tell me my brother had been arrested and my parents truck was impounded. So yet another mess to clean up for him. Jail is the best place for my brother anyway, just might get his ass clean. That remains to be seen.
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