Staff cannot be consistently incompetent. They must hate working in GPC
One day (Monday) that is all it took for my love affair to end after everything went without stress for me in that the staff made sure that everything was as it should, on Tuesday feeling that finally staff will make sure that Randy is ready for his daily 6-8 hour trip with me, I want freedom from stress every time I take Randy off site but it was not to happen. When Randy and I were on the bus (Broadway and Cambie) he coughed up a lot of mucous. I asked him if a nurse suctioned him before he left the ward. He indicated no. I asked him if he needed a suction as we could get off the bus or could he wait until we got to Tinsel Town park. He nodded yes. I watched him very carefully to make sure he was breathing okay. At Tinsel Town I discovered that the plastic tubing from the portable suction machine to the red suction tube was missing. I momentarily panicked. I then decided to take Randy to an Atira building and call 911. When the ambulance arrived I assured them that Randy only needed the tubing. Although 911 wasn't allowed to do suctioning they gave me one so I could do it myself. Hours later I again tried to suction Randy and this time the suction machine would not pick up. It was not sufficiently charged. I then noticed that the suction machine was not a clean one as the water bottle was 1/4 full meaning that no one had checked or cleaned the equipment from Monday. I then took Randy back to George Pearson Centre and had to wait 30 minutes before someone came to get Randy. The nurse that came to get Randy commented that Randy was soaking wet as it had started to rain when I took Randy off the bus and had to walk with him two blocks to the entrance..He wasn't soaking wet but he was rained on.
And to top it off that woman who picks up poo in the lane put poo in
my flower box again. At least this time it wasn't on the door step. I am so careful with the doggies' poo that I even pick
it up with paper toweling before I put it in a plastic bag so not even a
whisper of poo remains on a blade of grass. If that wasn't bad enough she started screaming that I was being cruel to Missey. Missey is a golden retriever who is a senior now who decided to sit in the lane and not move.. And as I tried to pull her collar towards the door, she wiggled out of it, with a look of complete joy on her face that she could foil my efforts. I turned my back on the doggie with that woman screaming animal cruelty so she could attract the neighbours, I then said bye Missey and a few minutes later Missey followed me inside. So now I have a dog off leash in the lane and expecting another $250 fine. I am going on 70 and I do not need this.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Randy's Anniversary
It has been two years since Randy's accident and the days are melting into one ...
Today for the first time I can remember nothing went wrong. Randy was delivered to me on time, appropriately dressed, etc. I can't remember a time before when everything was as it should be including the suction machine, his feed and his toilet.. Randy became relaxed as he visited his friend Alfred...Randy has always had a calming affect on me.
There is a recent report by CBC W5: Long Care Faciliites May Put Seniors at Risk March 31, 2012, where there has been a shift from nursing home for the elderly to residential care facilities that are dumping grounds for those who have no where else to go including the young, the mentally ill, and the violent. And of course none of this is known to other residents or I suspect staff working with them. The report also mentioned that care workers work as though they are on an assembly line. Thank you BCGEU and the RN Union.. The trend is now for families to hire personal care workers if they can afford to. In the CBC Report a mother was paying $63,000 a year in addition to the cost of the care facility to make sure her father is safe. I saw two incidents of this when I was allowed on Ward 2 at GPC. And I am being forced to take Randy off site to ensure he is getting the attention he needs as I am banned from his bedside
Today for the first time I can remember nothing went wrong. Randy was delivered to me on time, appropriately dressed, etc. I can't remember a time before when everything was as it should be including the suction machine, his feed and his toilet.. Randy became relaxed as he visited his friend Alfred...Randy has always had a calming affect on me.
There is a recent report by CBC W5: Long Care Faciliites May Put Seniors at Risk March 31, 2012, where there has been a shift from nursing home for the elderly to residential care facilities that are dumping grounds for those who have no where else to go including the young, the mentally ill, and the violent. And of course none of this is known to other residents or I suspect staff working with them. The report also mentioned that care workers work as though they are on an assembly line. Thank you BCGEU and the RN Union.. The trend is now for families to hire personal care workers if they can afford to. In the CBC Report a mother was paying $63,000 a year in addition to the cost of the care facility to make sure her father is safe. I saw two incidents of this when I was allowed on Ward 2 at GPC. And I am being forced to take Randy off site to ensure he is getting the attention he needs as I am banned from his bedside
Friday, June 1, 2012
A You Tube moment
I returned Randy to George Orwell at about 8:00 p.m. on Thursday. It was pouring rain out and Randy was cocooned in his chair under a heavy fleece blanket. On his lap/chest area Owen his little doggie "his son" was laying quietly soaking wet not wanting to leave Randy. It was a You Tube moment.
However it was quickly destroyed by the night manager, Evelyn, who reminded me that Randy's doggie was not allowed on site. The problems of George Pearson Centre with being short staffed, with people dying, with no one to answer phones in a timely manner and yet, although no harm was done, the bullies in Ward 2 can get management to run around enforcing nonsense. The bullies of Ward 2 watch me every minute when I am on site as I have to pass its windows on my way to the entrance.
Little Owen is a cute little 17-pound terri-poo with big brown eyes. He was securely leashed on a short leash so he could not attack anyone. Also we were outside the building in the rain. No one else was there.
It was Evelyn who gave me my banning letter at 6:00 pm in February 2011 and I said to her then that since I had come all the way from North Burnaby I will visit Randy until 7:00 pm and then leave and I would deal with the letter next day. That wasn't good enough for her. She called security and security called the police. This she did in front of Randy a quad who can't talk or walk with a trach in his throat and a brain injury but I saw terror in his eyes as he did not understand what was happening. GPC was cruel and insensitive. And I will never forgive it.
When the police arrived the police said to let me stay until 7:00 pm. The GPC staff have no commonsense. They chose what directives they want to follow no matter without questioning why. Just like policies VGH has binders full yet chose not to follow them arbitrarily. Policies are only a regulatory insist by the government with no enforcement penalty.
And another thing Evelyn did was call Car 87, the mental health police car, so they could take me off to a psych ward. Later I thought to myself how lucky I was that the car wasn't able to get there until after I left. I was witness to a man in 2010 who was taken away to the mental health unit in St. Pauls for six weeks and he never ever after that ever complained that his rights were being violated. The law of unforeseen consequences and enforcement by the state.
GPC does not care about patients (it is just a rote job for them) except to isolate them and allow a culture of bullying (abuse of power) to exist. Look at any third world country and that is how they are governed. A hierarchy of bullies. And now it has come here.
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However it was quickly destroyed by the night manager, Evelyn, who reminded me that Randy's doggie was not allowed on site. The problems of George Pearson Centre with being short staffed, with people dying, with no one to answer phones in a timely manner and yet, although no harm was done, the bullies in Ward 2 can get management to run around enforcing nonsense. The bullies of Ward 2 watch me every minute when I am on site as I have to pass its windows on my way to the entrance.
Little Owen is a cute little 17-pound terri-poo with big brown eyes. He was securely leashed on a short leash so he could not attack anyone. Also we were outside the building in the rain. No one else was there.
It was Evelyn who gave me my banning letter at 6:00 pm in February 2011 and I said to her then that since I had come all the way from North Burnaby I will visit Randy until 7:00 pm and then leave and I would deal with the letter next day. That wasn't good enough for her. She called security and security called the police. This she did in front of Randy a quad who can't talk or walk with a trach in his throat and a brain injury but I saw terror in his eyes as he did not understand what was happening. GPC was cruel and insensitive. And I will never forgive it.
When the police arrived the police said to let me stay until 7:00 pm. The GPC staff have no commonsense. They chose what directives they want to follow no matter without questioning why. Just like policies VGH has binders full yet chose not to follow them arbitrarily. Policies are only a regulatory insist by the government with no enforcement penalty.
And another thing Evelyn did was call Car 87, the mental health police car, so they could take me off to a psych ward. Later I thought to myself how lucky I was that the car wasn't able to get there until after I left. I was witness to a man in 2010 who was taken away to the mental health unit in St. Pauls for six weeks and he never ever after that ever complained that his rights were being violated. The law of unforeseen consequences and enforcement by the state.
GPC does not care about patients (it is just a rote job for them) except to isolate them and allow a culture of bullying (abuse of power) to exist. Look at any third world country and that is how they are governed. A hierarchy of bullies. And now it has come here.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
It never fails
On Tuesday we went to the physio open house at George Orwell.. Murray was doing his exercise routine. Murray is in the bed next to Randy and his wife attends to him every minute and Murray is improving with haste as his wife is there with him all the time. And she is a poster child of a caregiver. Only devoted to her man and nothing else. Last time I saw her on the street she deliberately avoided me. What a cold cold place George Orwell is.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Randy wants to go to work...
Yesterday was very positive for me. Randy said he wanted to go to work and be like Rick Hansen. I was surprised and delighted.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Joy Fellowship
We had a very good afternoon yesterday, Randy and I, we attended a Joy Fellowship service at GPC. The 30+ Christians that were there were not afraid of me. I can only speculate that it must be the non-Christians who are afraid of me.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
This is Priceless
A quote from VCH Risk Management Friday May 25 2012
I also wanted to clarify you are not banned from GPC. Marion gave you a letter supporting you can visit every day if you choose. You have been asked not to go to many areas of GPC except Randy's Ward, the grounds at GPC and the family room.
This is double speak. I am not allowed to go to Randy's bedside except for two minutes just to make sure that Randy hasn't been hidden in the caverns of VCH so I don't call the police.VCH hide him on me and put a No Information Order on him in 2010 so that no one else could find him either without his knowledge or my knowledge. VCH has refused to tell me who did this. This two-minute concession is allowed me while under escorted supervision. When Randy isn't feeling well and can't get out of bed I cannot visit him at his bedside. From day one of my banning I was told that the residents from Ward 2 were afraid of me so I do not understand why you have extended this to the whole hospital. No one is afraid of me and you have created a shameful situation targeting caregivers who really care by driving them away. Your Risk Management Department created the problem. Why are you with your two social worker degrees doing this. You remind me of low paid security guards who create situations to demonstrate to their superiors that they are valuable. This nightmare has been going on for two years for me and Randy and there seems to be no end.
Also I can only be on site to visit Randy from 12:00 to 4:00 which is a recent improvement from 2:00 to 4:00 only on weekdays but not weekends, evenings or holidays. These hours are to accommodate Willy the bully who has spent the past nine years sleeping at GPC in Ward 2 who was and still is instrumental in my banning. He sleeps in a semi-recliner chair. No one else is allowed personal chairs in the ward but he has one. From surfing the Internet it says that a good night's sleep can be attained by sleeping at a 40 degree angle sitting up. His wife has one of those old monster tvs that you cannot give away sitting on a table taking up valuable space that impede the nurses ability to work. Everyone else has to have a ceiling tv. And Willy has a reputation for being rich so he tells everyone as staff, visitors and residents fall over him. You would think he would be loving enough to buy his wife a new flat screen tv.. Willy should do the right thing and donate the rent he has saved to the recreational department at GPC. But then that will never happen as bullies only make sure they are looked after. Refer to Wikipedia and link to bullies and the stress they cause their victims and onlookers.
Also after all this time Randy and I are now allowed to attend recreational activities at GPC provided we are approved (to be supervised) ahead of time. And now after all the pleas to allow me to attend with Randy which went unanswered to events, Randy doesn't want to go.. Two months ago he was diagnosed as clinically depressed and he doesn't want to do much. Why would he be so depressed after two years of the best care VCH offers. Knowing of his depression I take him off site to places that might interest him.
I was also told that I can't access the grounds except for the concrete pathway to visit Randy in the family room which is likened to a very hot visitors room in a jail. And it isn't instant visiting Randy when I arrived as it can take up to two hours for staff to wheel him into the family room. Today I had to wait thirty minutes.
And please do not rationalize that staff is overworked and underpaid. It is their personal lives that are overworked and they force themselves to come to work for timeout and secondary for their wage. The pay for a LPN is $22 an hour to $40 an hour plus 30% fringe benefits plus overtime plus the ability to work at another facility on their days off. And they will never quit and give up their pensions. There should be no in-house pensions to eliminate the reason for corruption. A LPN isn't a RN so it would be interesting to know what RNs make. An old lady once told me to find answers just follow the money. Also a LPN only requires nine-months of schooling which is scary. Take an acting course, take a 9-month course, memorize only the things that you have to never mind understanding why, and manipulate hours for your $100,000 a year job and above all make sure you project to the general population that you are a Florence Nightingale.
I also wanted to clarify you are not banned from GPC. Marion gave you a letter supporting you can visit every day if you choose. You have been asked not to go to many areas of GPC except Randy's Ward, the grounds at GPC and the family room.
This is double speak. I am not allowed to go to Randy's bedside except for two minutes just to make sure that Randy hasn't been hidden in the caverns of VCH so I don't call the police.VCH hide him on me and put a No Information Order on him in 2010 so that no one else could find him either without his knowledge or my knowledge. VCH has refused to tell me who did this. This two-minute concession is allowed me while under escorted supervision. When Randy isn't feeling well and can't get out of bed I cannot visit him at his bedside. From day one of my banning I was told that the residents from Ward 2 were afraid of me so I do not understand why you have extended this to the whole hospital. No one is afraid of me and you have created a shameful situation targeting caregivers who really care by driving them away. Your Risk Management Department created the problem. Why are you with your two social worker degrees doing this. You remind me of low paid security guards who create situations to demonstrate to their superiors that they are valuable. This nightmare has been going on for two years for me and Randy and there seems to be no end.
Also I can only be on site to visit Randy from 12:00 to 4:00 which is a recent improvement from 2:00 to 4:00 only on weekdays but not weekends, evenings or holidays. These hours are to accommodate Willy the bully who has spent the past nine years sleeping at GPC in Ward 2 who was and still is instrumental in my banning. He sleeps in a semi-recliner chair. No one else is allowed personal chairs in the ward but he has one. From surfing the Internet it says that a good night's sleep can be attained by sleeping at a 40 degree angle sitting up. His wife has one of those old monster tvs that you cannot give away sitting on a table taking up valuable space that impede the nurses ability to work. Everyone else has to have a ceiling tv. And Willy has a reputation for being rich so he tells everyone as staff, visitors and residents fall over him. You would think he would be loving enough to buy his wife a new flat screen tv.. Willy should do the right thing and donate the rent he has saved to the recreational department at GPC. But then that will never happen as bullies only make sure they are looked after. Refer to Wikipedia and link to bullies and the stress they cause their victims and onlookers.
Also after all this time Randy and I are now allowed to attend recreational activities at GPC provided we are approved (to be supervised) ahead of time. And now after all the pleas to allow me to attend with Randy which went unanswered to events, Randy doesn't want to go.. Two months ago he was diagnosed as clinically depressed and he doesn't want to do much. Why would he be so depressed after two years of the best care VCH offers. Knowing of his depression I take him off site to places that might interest him.
I was also told that I can't access the grounds except for the concrete pathway to visit Randy in the family room which is likened to a very hot visitors room in a jail. And it isn't instant visiting Randy when I arrived as it can take up to two hours for staff to wheel him into the family room. Today I had to wait thirty minutes.
And please do not rationalize that staff is overworked and underpaid. It is their personal lives that are overworked and they force themselves to come to work for timeout and secondary for their wage. The pay for a LPN is $22 an hour to $40 an hour plus 30% fringe benefits plus overtime plus the ability to work at another facility on their days off. And they will never quit and give up their pensions. There should be no in-house pensions to eliminate the reason for corruption. A LPN isn't a RN so it would be interesting to know what RNs make. An old lady once told me to find answers just follow the money. Also a LPN only requires nine-months of schooling which is scary. Take an acting course, take a 9-month course, memorize only the things that you have to never mind understanding why, and manipulate hours for your $100,000 a year job and above all make sure you project to the general population that you are a Florence Nightingale.
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