Posted on 05/05/2006 3:45:22 AM PDT by SheLion
Who ever runs this nursing home should be shot!
There is no reason on earth why they are treating the elderly like this. This is elderly abuse. The nursing home is their home. They have no choice but to live there. Why can't they be accepted and just live there in peace.
I was in a four banger with three others whose combined age was about 600. I couldn't get any of them to play cards or anything else, all they did was lie around moaning.
After two days of this, I dragged my self and my IV across the hall to a private bathroom for a smoke. The floor nurse burst in and demanded I cease and desist or she'd, "put you on report!"
I replied, "Who you gonna report me too, the F'n principal?"
About half an hour later my bags were packed and they shipped me home.
We had to move her from assisted living to a nursing home, as she required a higher level of care, and naturally, the "home" was smoke-free.
When they took her smokes away, she went to sleep, and refused to wake up.
No longer taking the medicines she needed to sustain life, she died after a few days.
Honest to God, you can't win for losing when dealing with fanatics- my Dad quit smoking in his seventies, and when he died 25 years later, one of the damn Docs pronounced, "Yep, the smoking did it..."
I hope that if I ever have to enter any nursing home ,a friend will shoot me as I enter. I might even shoot myself the day before.
I didn't know nursing home residents would still be smoking that late in life... The way they push the ban you would think that smoking killed more teenagers than anything else.
About half an hour later my bags were packed and they shipped me home.
metesky, they are sick and obsessed. To be treated like this over a legal product is mind blowing.
Where will it end? I'm surprised you didn't punch her lights out. I wouldn't have blamed you if you did. But then, you would have really been put on report! heh!
It's too easy to just blame everything on smoking. When "they" don't know the real truth, they just spew "Yep, it's the smoking." They get right off the hook with that statement. Very very sad...............
And if this is the way the elderly is going to be treated, I don't want to go there either.
I know it. If we believed their stupid numbers, none of us should be alive let alone alive and still smoking! I wished the general public would wake up to the anti's lies and spin.
Some are better than others , but they all suck.
Would chewing tobacco help?
I chew and as far as I know it hasn't been banned anywhere yet.
Just wait 'til the smoke nazis start whining about second hand spit.
I pray for the day we are free of these fanatics who are crazy enough to become fronts and follow orders of those that are even crazier.
The best known fronts are Hiltery and Booba who are being rewarded in all kinds of ways for being the scum they are.
Some day these people will be brought to justice and it can't be soon enough for me. Dictatorship and tyrany are not for America.
Every time we're at my in-laws and my mother-in-law wakes up in the morning it sounds like she is trying to cough a lung up. The only time I've ever felt that is during and right after a bout with bronchitis. So I'm going to assume that she has chronic bronchicial infections, I'm sure that her being a moderate smoker has nothing to do with it.
Would chewing tobacco help?
Never. Not for me.
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