I met an older woman who’s husband was put into the hospital during covid. After not being able to talk with him or anyone about him, a younger neighbor gal and the woman drove to the place.
They finally were able to see somebody to talk to and they said he was fine and in their isolation ward but they couldn’t visit him or talk to him.
They figured out where the isolation ward was, got in, found the husband starving, wearing a filthy gown covered with poop, urine and vomit. They wheeled him out the back door and to his home where he is doing fine 2 years later.
Good for them!! Bravo!!
Patients need someone with them all the time, IMO. The COVID wards are notorious for just letting people die - NO care other than lots of Remdesivir.
My dad is 99 ... if he has to go to the hospital & they want to put him in a ward without family, he/I have agreed, he’s coming home.
My brother’s partner’s wife got COVID & ended up in the hospital. No visitors. He “broke in” twice to see her - hospital locked all the doors & posted security (other families trying to get in too). Once she could no longer talk on the phone, he couldn’t keep tabs on her - docs/nurses were not calling him back. Finally, a doc talked to him to tell him they intubated her because she was ‘fighting’ them & they did give her Remdesivir. Evidently she was too young to kill - off vent in 3 days, but spent a long, long time in rehab.