concern

I'm concerned today.  The doctor never showed up to see my brother, even though he told the nurse on Sunday he would.  I anticipated something like this because I can never get a straight story about when he is going to show up.  So this morning, I spoke to my brother's nurse.  She knew nothing about my brother's weight, she had only two weights for the last two months.  I told her that it was in the doctors orders that he was supposed to be weighed daily, and I got a song and dance about how she wasn't there yesterday.  Nobody there every wants to be held accountable for anything.  The nurse said she would tell her supervisor what was going on, and that she couldn't order the doctor to come, it was up to him.

I called back in the later afternoon and of course no one had seen him.  The doctor is not supposedly coming tomorrow.  They did weigh him again and it sounded like he had gained around 13 pounds in the last few weeks.    I left a voice mail for the patient advocate.  Of course this was one of her days off.  It really ticks me off that I have to work at this to get him the proper medical care.  I am very concerned that if they don't deal with this condition soon, it is going to get into a crisis with him in the hospital, or worse.  I plan on driving out to the nursing home tomorrow evening to see how he is and get him some attention.  The problem is by the time I will get there, a lot of the people will have gone home.  I will also try and do this by phone during the day.

And this is one of the better nursing homes he has stayed at.  It is very discouraging.