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To: November Gale

I know exactly how you feel, I know exactly what you went through.

Bedsores are also an infection risk. I know a man that died from osteomyelitis he got as the result of the most egregious neglect. The bedsore exposed his lumbar spine. He had money and good insurance.

This happens to a greater extent in places like Florida where elderly patients have little or no family nearby to keep the heat on the staff to care for them attentively.


15 posted on 01/02/2009 4:23:33 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Yes, my dad got a couple of bedsores too. He spent almost a year in the hospital. When the hospital would release him to the nursing home for therapy, he would only be at the nursing home a few days, his fever would spike up (due to the infections), and he’d have to be sent back to the hospital, where he would pick up other infections. It was a vicious cycle. He never was able to get any kind of physical therapy hardly. He was rendered too sick and weak from dealing with all those hospital acquired infections. And my dad was only 69 years old when he died. He worked all his life, was always strong, but he was no match for those terrible infections.


17 posted on 01/02/2009 5:27:15 AM PST by November Gale (Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?)
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