09:10 – Barbara’s dad came home briefly, but is now back in the hospital. I almost paid a visit to the hospital myself yesterday, to have a heart-to-heart chat with some of their staff. When Barbara got home yesterday morning, I was downstairs doing laundry when she pulled in. She got on her cell phone as soon as she got out of her car, and I overheard her end of the conversation with her sister. I heard her mention a conversation with one of the nurses, and she mentioned that the nurse had said that she and Frances were horrible children. I roared, “WHO THE HELL SAID THAT?”, and was getting ready to get in my truck and head down there. Barbara quickly assured me that the nurse hadn’t actually used those words, but that had been her implication. Not much better, but I sat down and listened to what Barbara had to say. In effect, the nurse accused Barbara and Frances of abandoning their father, when the truth is that the hospital flat-out lied to them about his condition and essentially forced them to take their father home when he wasn’t anywhere near ready to be released. And this nurse actually told Barbara that if they brought him back to the hospital they wouldn’t treat him further and that their father was now their responsibility.
Sunday, 21 April 2013
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Maybe things work differently in North Carolina, but I don’t think that decisions like that are up to the nurses.
Is that nurse the same one as the really bad one from a few weeks ago?
They’re not up to anyone. Nowhere in the US can a hospital refuse to treat anyone who comes in the door with a life-threatening medical condition. But that was just more lies on top of the other lies they told Barbara and Frances.
Of course, this is the same hospital that forced Barbara and Frances to take their dad home, emphasizing that it was critical that they continue administering his IV antibiotic at exactly 8:00 p.m. every evening, and then failed to provide the antibiotic that they had promised they would deliver to her parents’ apartment. When it became obvious that the antibiotic wouldn’t arrive, Barbara hauled her dad back to the hospital and had to beg them to administer it. Dutch finally got it about 9:00 p.m., an hour late.
I’m not sure if this was the same or a different nurse. A different one, I’m pretty sure, or Barbara would have mentioned it.
I have a lazy PC here that I’d like to install some version or other of Linux on. There’s a years old Ubuntu on it that I’ll blow away. Our host mentioned Mint a day or two back. Is that the best version for a rusted on M$ slave? I want easy mode if possible, and to install off a key drive. I have no reason to run it from the key drive, I’ll just blow away what’s there. Any suggestions apart from Mint LTS?
Re Linux: I am pretty happy with Xubuntu. I tried Mint, but the Ubuntu installation is just piles simpler. With XFCE instead of the Unity crap, it’s a very nice system.
It’s amazing the difference you see in hospital staff. Some hospitals must hire douches right off the street. Probably unionized and can’t be fired. Why would people like that even want to work in the medical field.
A kid is accused of a crime for wearing a shirt with a gun on it:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/21/8th-grader-suspended-arrested-for-wearing-nra-shirt/
Pat Condell explains the Progressive thought process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK7VRkbGiU
Our host seems to have gravitated toward using Mint a lot now; I had it several years ago and liked it then. Also had Xubuntu w/XFCE on a twelve-year-old laptop but it was still too much for it, due to bloatware and because it only has 1GB of RAM and a flaky monitor now, finally. Put CrunchBang on it last week and it seems to run very nicely now.
I took Ubuntu 12.10 off this desktop because updates borked the network controller AND the wireless, after I busted my butt getting them to work in the first place, thanks to flaky and apparently ubiquitous Atheron ethernet controllers which I now hate. Now running Windows 8, mostly in desktop mode, as backup for Mrs. OFD and I have Fedora 18 in vm via Virtual Box and it’s running very well. RHEL 6.4 in the other desktop.
37 here on the Bay today and sunny with blue skies; wind finally died down after several days of gale-force stuff that blew things all over the place here. Lotta dead fish on the shore last week, too, due to being blown under the ice earlier right after spawing, alewives. Cleaned up by hordes of seagulls and other shore and marsh birds; also seeing golden and bald eagles now and several species of hawks.
Lotta birthdays this month; Mrs. OFD, granddaughter, MIL, sister….must been all them hot August nights back when….
Someone needs to tell Mr. Condell to do his video bits in a room without that echo or fix that room up so it won’t have it. And the plain white wall behind him sorta makes it seem like he’s speaking from a state of some kind of incarceration.
April birthdays…
My elder niece (26th), her husband (23rd) and their little boy (18th). All with birthdays within about a week starting last Thursday. Must have been those cold July nights under the blankets.
Oh yeah, it be wintuh down there in July. Keep forgetting. But we had one July 4th weekend up here a few years ago when we had outta-town guests and I hadda light the fireplace, temps down in the fotties those nights. Low fotties.
In other nooz, more strange videos and questions surfacing after the Boston Marathon capers. Three different accounts now of Tamerlan’s arrest and alleged death. More arrests down in New Bedford, and now word of a 12-person cell/team that they’re hunting. And alleged cooperation from the Russians.
I’ve heard of women who could bear 18 sons but 23 husbands seems like a bit much.
(So what that my eyes skipped over the first part.)
I think I’d want to start videotaping my conversations with the hospital, just to make sure I understand everything you know.
Roy, I think you misinterpreted Miles_Teg’s comment. The son is turning 18 and his parents are turning 23 and 26. While it’s unusual for the wife to be three years older than the husband it’s not unheard of. I will admit to being surprised by their ages. The only good thing is that the son was able to get the father’s clothes as they were outgrown.
Steve,
😎
Roy
You haven’t set today as Sunday…
Hopefully he hasn’t been arrested and dragged away by the local constabulary for running amok at the hospital or something. We also have to worry about him blowing himself up. Yeah, I know he’s an expert chemist and been doing this stuff since the doctor slapped his bottom, but we all know about how shit can happen. Then there’s the additional concern about him getting behind the wheel of a vehicle for the first time in who knows how long, with very little practice.
Seriously; hope all is well with Dutch & All.
It appears now that that there were 270 tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas.
http://www.chron.com/default/article/Scope-of-threat-in-West-a-surprise-to-feds-4450243.php
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/west-explosion/headlines/20130421-west-texas-update-site-of-explosion-identified-memorial-details-revealed.ece
If this is anywhere close to being true, this was extremely irresponsible. The damage to the town in photos appears to be devastating. The town has already been declared an emergency by Governor Perry which starts the FEMA ball rolling for cleanup and rebuild. If the owner has liability insurance then I can imagine that will be exceeded very quickly.
Wow. Just back from another weekend babysitting the radio station. This has been one helluva week from all perspectives, including news. Have not seen the Internet for days now. One day off tomorrow (Monday, as I guess it is tomorrow already), then another underwater swim until next Monday.
Not sure if hospitals are better off now than a few years ago before they started all the consolidation, but doctors sure work less. We have had similar problems here that have probably done some permanent damage to my uncle’s health. Only because my cousin’s wife—who was once an RN—jumped up and down and threatened everybody in the process, did they stop giving my uncle the standard treatment for pneumonia, when tests they gave him prior to treatment showed he had no pneumonia at all. They hydrated him through IV when he needed no hydration and blew up like a balloon (no kidding). Prior to this fiasco, he had lifelong low blood pressure. Now he suddenly has high blood pressure.
He responded very well to physical therapy, and has regained much of his former strength, but still has high blood pressure. All this caused by incompetence by the weekend B-team of both doctors and nurses at the hospital. Boy, all I can say is don’t get sick on the weekend. Get into the hospital during the week, when the competent people are on duty. These days, real doctors do not work on weekends come hell or high water.
And speaking of high water, we have had a ton of that lately. Lots of people with insurance claims, flooded basements, and wood framing compromised by standing water. Also lotta hail damage of cars, roofs, and house siding. Rivers, lakes, and streets overflowing all around. Far cry from last summer’s drought that brought the worst damage to crops in most people’s memories.
Gotta crash now. May not be back again until next week.
Yeah, I figured it was ammonium nitrate. The original stories about it being anhydrous ammonia made no sense. Anhydrous ammonia doesn’t detonate like that. It’s hard enough to keep ammonia burning. Ammonium nitrate in large quantities, on the other hand, can detonate even when not contained because of a phenomenon called self-containment, whereby the surrounding mass of ammonium nitrate itself serves to contain the part in the center of the mass. When that central core detonates, the shock wave causes the surrounding loosely-packed ammonium nitrate to detonate as well.
Bon voyage, Chuck; hope your week ain’t too heavy; get some rest.
You too, Bob.
And OFD after this week of new cluster build ongoing and corporate security audit underway. And both vehicles here going into the shop. And….etc.
27 this morning. But the flowers are coming up anyway.