Posted on 10/16/2021 3:54:43 PM PDT by simpson96
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—A Florida woman has spent the night in jail after refusing to leave her daughter's side at the hospital.
“I stand by my actions 100%. I am not sorry that I made them take me out of there in handcuffs,” Lynn Savage told Action News Jax.
Savage refused to leave her daughter's side while she was recovering from brain surgery at the University of Florida Health North. She said her daughter is non-verbal and was partially paralyzed after suffering from a stroke.
“I could not in good conscience and good heart leave her bedside not knowing how she was going to make it through the night voluntarily," Savage said.
The 70-year-old great-grandmother said she needed to be there to help her daughter remain calm and to interpret.
“The nurse said that the visiting hours were over at 7 p.m. and I had to leave and I said, 'I’m not going to leave. I want to stay here with my daughter. Can you call the doctor because the doctor is the one that wanted me here with her?' And she said no that they couldn’t do that that COVID rules said that visiting hours were over at 7 p.m.,” Savage said.
An arrest report says security spent ours pleading for Savage to leave before arresting her. She spent about 24 hours in jail.
“Not an experience that I would ever want to do again for the rest of my life not ever. It was horrible. It was filthy, it was more like an insane asylum with the women screaming and hollering and banging on bars and banging on walls. It was just terrifying, but I would rather be there than know that I had walked away from my daughter," she said.
She was booked for trespassing.
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I think you should stop right now assuming you know me.
You don’t!
I don’t know where you live but I don’t see any of that happening around here. Not in the hospital where I work, nor in the nursing home just down the road a small piece where their family members and friends were able to visit thru their window but not inside the facility. Even our covid patients are allowed to visit family and friends thru their window but no visitors in the room.
My husband was in with covid for 11 days, even I, who work there, was not allowed to visit other than thru the window.
Hospitals are not out to get you. Typically they are trying to keep you alive. I can’t speak for every hospital.
Also there is a nursing shortage, and a lab shortage, and an xray tech shortage, and it goes on and medical professionals are just sick of trying to keep family members alive despite visitors best attempts to do otherwise. The ‘burnout’ nurses are experiencing is not only because of long hours and too many patients per nurse but also just from trying to keep everyone’s friends and families happy. It’s nigh impossible to do. For people who do not work in hospitals, it’s very hard to understand.
I can’t speak for all or even most nursing homes but the one down the road from the hospital allows their friends and family to visit through the window in their room.
What would you have nursing homes do? Allow everyone in and just allow covid to kill the patients? There is no good answer.
I know some ladies who work at the nursing home and they are testing 3 times a week for covid. The facility is trying to keep their clients from getting covid which would most likely kill them. I’m sure you’ve read where some nursing homes were inundated with covid killing many of the patients. Again, no good answer.
If you have a loved one in the hospital you - or a relative - needs to be with that person round the clock. You might want to arrange to have a number of young persons showing up and you introduce them as the children of that person - a lawyer, a physician and a big money guy from Wall St.
There are some wonderful people who work in hospitals and there are some very sick ones. You need to make sure your loved one is protected from the evil ones.
We are talking about loved ones with dying patients - not out of control children at all hours.
I figure you've been working long hours at a hospital and have lost sight of what's going on in the ICU. Do you want to be alone when you are dying?
Who gets to pick and choose who is allowed to stay?
The ones with the children are also insisting on staying. They also get mad and refuse when asked to leave “why can’t my child stay with their beloved grandmother”. It is so difficult for a hospital to draw a line that makes everyone happy. There are always those who feel they should be allowed to stay.
However, I must say I do agree, one adult family member should be allowed to stay and of course they were prior to covid and are still allowed to stay (where I work) if the person is not able to take care of themselves but NOT allowed to stay if the nursing staff deems the person IS able to take care of themselves and push the nursing button if they need assistance. If I were to make the rules, I would allow one person to stay but the rules are made by administration.
I work in the ER, I am the ER clerk - a non ‘medical professional’ position. I have always felt one person should be allowed to go back with the patient but this was not allowed when covid in our area was bad not because of that patient but because of the OTHER patients being exposed to potential illnesses. That has been changed to allow one person to go back with the patient which most people do seem to understand and comply. Two visitors allowed per patient per day on the med/surg floor but not allowed to stay over night - don’t know why but none of our nurses are evil, just overworked. But then, we are a small hospital and I feel that is why we give such good care, because of the very reason we are a small hospital in a small community. But I do understand why big hospitals have the rules they do and I would comply.
I see I misread, it said ‘dying patient’.
Totally different at our hospital, dying patients have unlimited visitors and at all hours if it is truly an ‘end of life’ situation. Even dying covid patients are allowed visitors, two at a time because they have to be decked out in PPE so two go in, two come out and two more go in.
I find this very hard to fathom. If you are immediate family of a patient in such a condition there is no such thing ‘’as visiting hours are over’’.
I am not so conflicted. Who ever was responsible for having her removed and arrested should be placed in stocks in the local public square to have rotten fruit and vegetables tossed at their sorry asses.
EVIL!!! NO ONE uses ANY common sense anymore! It wasn’t like the daughter had FOOT surgery!
WHY?
You too....WHY?
God gave you DISCERNMENT....USE IT!
“Does Covid only infect people between certain hours? The nurse took the time to call the cops on the mother, but she couldn’t take the time to call the doctor to ask about the mother’s staying past visiting hours?”
Very good points, indeed. Thank you.
I’m not.
The staff are vaxxed, but can still get sick and spread CoupFlu.
Are they testing vaxxed staff?
If so, then the mom should be able to use the same protocol.
If they aren’t testing vaxxed staff....
Then the hospital system does not have a legal or ethical leg to stand on.
But then CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health, has it.
Good grief!
All I said is ‘I’m conflicted’.......
Last I checked Free Republic still allowed ‘conflicted’ as an opinion.....
...and doesn’t call for chastisement.
What’s next?......Cancellation
At the beginning of January my sister and I took my 82 year old mom to the ER. The hospital in the Houston area forced us to drop her off and leave. The doctor had to call us to find out what was wrong with her.
We thought it was pneumonia. At the time she didn’t have Covid or pneumonia. She spent over a week with no visitors and flat on her back. She developed pneumonia. She was finally diagnosed with Small Cell Squamous Carcinoma. The only people who told us anything were the doctors who wanted to flip her in to hospice immediately.
She came out of the hospital worse than she went in. She lasted 3 weeks at home with visiting nurses. There was NO WAY IN H3LL I was going to dump her in another facility where she’d be alone.
Forcing the elderly and the young to be alone in the hospital was one of the most inhumane things the hospitals did for “safety”.
No.....I just saw NO REASON to be conflicted about this.
Well, I guess we should just let everyone in again. Running the halls, kids everywhere all the time, coming and going all hours of the day. Coughing all over each other, silly of us to check people for covid before they come into a hospital, all these people at risk due to compromised immune systems, no more rules in a hospital, rules are for lemmings and those that follow the main stream media. Should just be a free for all and only the strongest survive.
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Let me guess. You majored in exaggeration in college. Where did I say anything about anything like what you wrote? You don’t have to look because I didn’t.
But you did answer like an offended lemming.
I was responding to your #31 which you wrote to someone else calling lemmings because we did not agree with you. You might want to re-read your #31. Basically you were saying that person who did not agree with you what a lemming (and also called me a lemming), that they were on the wrong website (because apparently all people who do not agree with you are lemmings and on the wrong website?). So I was trying to explain WHY I did not agree with you.
You might look at the plank in your own eye before removing the plank from others.
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