Joe's 10 day trip to yankee land/Tiffany's surgery thread

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joevol33 said:
Yep, she's not coming home today. Bull crao, how you tell someone they're discharged, call your husband, then say "oops we don't have it lined up". Good grief.
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Discharge planning: almost always the obstacle to smooth bed control management.

And probably someone in step down needs Tiffany’s bed, and some one in ICU needs that step down bed, and someone in the emergency department needs the ICU bed, but has to receive ICU-level care in the ED, and some poor soul sits in the ED waiting area, puking into a bucket, waiting to go back to an ED bed, because the home health planning for Tiffany fell through.

Several years on the hospital Utilization Management committee (two hospitals and two committees, now that I think about it) wrestling with this. Unfortunately a common scenario.
 
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VolNExile said:
Discharge planning: almost always the obstacle to smooth bed control management.

And probably someone in step down needs Tiffany’s bed, and some one in ICU needs that step down bed, and someone in the emergency department needs the ICU bed, but has to receive ICU-level care in the ED, and some poor soul sits in the ED waiting area, puking into a bucket, waiting to go back to an ED bed, because the home health planning for Tiffany fell through.

Several years on the hospital Utilization Management committee (two hospitals and two committees, now that I think about it) wrestling with this. Unfortunately a common scenario.
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They had the home health fall through, so without that scheduled for tomorrow, she couldn't be released. It was a staffing issue, and now it'll be next week before they can come here. They had to have her on schedule at the hospital to get treatment tomorrow before she could leave. For that they had to have a prescription for the treatment, and scheduling was closed. I get it, but after the inhaler thing last night, and upset about not getting her today, I give the patient advocate, or whatever she was, a piece of my mind. Not about today, but last night. We'd actually called the nurse today and she didn't come , after an hour I found her in the hall sitting on her phone. About 5 minutes later the advocate talked to us, and I let it go. Told her if they're not letting her go, then my wife better not call me saying she can't get her inhaler or whatever, or I'd skip complaining and call a lawyer..I was just irked, "Lord forgive me", but I'm better now
 
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joevol33 said:
They had the home health fall through, so without that scheduled for tomorrow, she couldn't be released. It was a staffing issue, and now it'll be next week before they can come here. They had to have her on schedule at the hospital to get treatment tomorrow before she could leave. For that they had to have a prescription for the treatment, and scheduling was closed. I get it, but after the inhaler thing last night, and upset about not getting her today, I give the patient advocate, or whatever she was, a piece of my mind. Not about today, but last night. We'd actually called the nurse today and she didn't come , after an hour I found her in the hall sitting on her phone. About 5 minutes later the advocate talked to us, and I let it go. Told her if they're not letting her go, then my wife better not call me saying she can't get her inhaler or whatever, or I'd skip complaining and call a lawyer..I was just irked, "Lord forgive me", but I'm better now
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You are her first advocate Joe. And you are doing a fantastic job!
 
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Had a man in another department stop me earlier, we were passing each other getting parts. He told me that everyone knows how rough it's been on us, and that he wanted me to know people talked about it, and he said we were inspirational to them. How I come in smiling, tell others I'll pray for them, her not giving up. Idk, not saying that to sound bragging, but it does make you feel good that people look at you in a good way.
 
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joevol33 said:
Had a man in another department stop me earlier, we were passing each other getting parts. He told me that everyone knows how rough it's been on us, and that he wanted me to know people talked about it, and he said we were inspirational to them. How I come in smiling, tell others I'll pray for them, her not giving up. Idk, not saying that to sound bragging, but it does make you feel good that people look at you in a good way.
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@tiffany I'm not concerned about Joe's cereal choices, although I stopped eating cereal when I was 8 Captain Crunch was my favorite. In my opinion any cereal is better than him eating junk food all the time. I personally think you're doing a fine job raising him. He's gonna be a fine young man when he gets all grown up.

Im more concerned with what he's looking at on his phone when he's alone. He seems to talk alot about midget porn on here and that is a gateway into a dark dark world. I won't go into details right now, just thought you should be aware.
 
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