so, i wish i had been at the rehab around 4pm. i was there at 11am til noon, then i went over at 6:30 til 8pm
at noon, my mom was saying that she was going to buzz the nurse for some percacet since her legs were killing her, but her roommate was leaving today and so she didn't want to bother anyone. but at 2:15pm, mom buzzed the nurse.
so the "hey, i need someone in my room" light was blinking over the door.
3pm, shift change. so mom - not having had anyone in to see her since buzzing - decided to be nice and wait til 3:20 to let the new shift get settled. then she buzzed for the nurse again...
she hears someone come into the room about 15 minutes later - it's not a nurse, but some senile old lady in a wheelchair who starts yelling "this your bed? THIS YOUR BED!?" and then hitting mom's fucking legs. my mom was like "hold on, hey, excuse me, what room are you looking for?"
crazy old bitty on wheels (the COBOW™) then wheels herself over to my mother's dresser - keep in mind, gigglemom is in the frigging rehabilitation center because she can barely effing walk, and cannot get up or move by herself - and the bypass surgery hooked up new arteries to her legs and so fuck you COBOW™ for hitting my gigglemom's legs. where was i? the COBOW™ was rummaging through mom's drawers (dresser, not underpants) and my mom's now buzzing like hell for the nurse (good luck) - then COBOW™ wheels over to the closet where mom's clothes are and starts opening that - gigglemom was like "Excuse me! Those are mine!"
COBOW™ then turns/wheels in gigglemom's direction and starts shaking her finger at GM and yelling "WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A MINUTE!" then wheels out of the room (not sure if there was a trail of burned rubber, but....)
so, mom apparently was a little shaken.
she hears a nurse out in the hall talking and she yells "can someone come in here?" - so an aide comes plodding in and GM tells her what happened and the aide was like "okay" --- like "whatever" and starts to walk out. GM yells "hold on!" - aide comes back, GM says "i've been buzzing over the past hour and a half and no one has even come in to check what it was about - i have been in pain, i need to get percacet." aide says she'll get the nurse.
this was at 3:45pm.
nothing.
4:20pm mom buzzes again (GM hates to feel like a pest. but, come on, this is ridiculous.)
4:30, still no one.
4:45 - nothing.
mom buzzes at 4:50. nothing.
so, mom calls the operator, which, apparently when you press 0, it connects you to the main hospital. so mom told them she's been buzzing since 2:15pm for percacet and they've not done anything. apparently, the operator then calls the nurses station at the rehab. a few minutes later at 5pm, a cranky nurse comes in and says "sorry, the nurse with the keys to the drugs was on break."
you have to be kidding me.
so GM then says "perhaps it's time that there's a duplicate key made. i sure feel sorry for the others in this place that really don't have their wits about them and are at the mercy of you people here, not that i'm not at the mercy of you right now, too. but i feel sorry for them"
nurse says nothing. no apology. fuck you, Ratchett.
gigglemom finally gets the percacet at 5:15pm - THREE fucking hours since buzzing for the nurse.
i had called her around 5:20 to chat and she sounded upset, and i asked what was up and she just said "i'll tell you when you get here" --- thus, the story unfolded when i arrived.
i am livid. this piece of shit hospice/nursing and rehabilitation center SUCKS FUCKING GRANNY ASS.
it's a filthy hovel and fuck horizon blue cross/blue shield for being a crap insurance and not giving the okay for GM to have gone to the rehab that was IN the hospital.
gigglemom told me not to say anything to the nurses at the moment. and i won't, but, i certainly want to get all kinds of shirley maclaine on their asses. oh. hell. yeah. me and my uterus are NOT in the mood, Shady Pines, NOT in the fucking mood.
i'm seriously considering throwing gigglemom in her wheelchair tomorrow and kicking in the doors at the nursing home to do a line-up of hte blue haired crew. which COBOW™ was it, GM? i'll slash some chair tires.
