http://mymotherslife.com Dedicated to the Only Woman I'll Love, My Mother. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:46:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mymotherslife.com/2011/08/its-just-one-day-right/ http://mymotherslife.com/2011/08/its-just-one-day-right/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:04:54 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/2011/08/its-just-one-day-right/ Share|Surprise, your regular worker has been shifted elsewhere, and no, you don't rate any notice of that, unless you constantly check your online schedule. Then you might find out before the substitute shows up. Course the worker isn't told until the last minute either, but hey, who cares, they are just employees. More important that the CEO of Beacon Community Services is guaranteed her quarter of a million dollar salary, than proper employees are hired, and trained for their job. Besides, old people are about to expire, so what's the big deal, right?

]]> http://mymotherslife.com/2011/08/its-just-one-day-right/feed/ 0 http://mymotherslife.com/2011/03/the-nightmares-do-not-go-away/ http://mymotherslife.com/2011/03/the-nightmares-do-not-go-away/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:54:10 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=536 Share|Changes in schedules, alters the daily routine. It does impact the Patient and not in a good way. People need to understand that there are serious ramifications when they arbitrarily alter a person's home support schedule. It isn't just effecting a worker, but the Patient, and the primary caregiver. It makes for a long day, a stressful one, that could have been avoided by a simple phone call. Unfortunately some don't care enough to make that 2 minute call, instead they just fuck people over, collect their checks, and go on in a heartless world.

]]> http://mymotherslife.com/2011/03/the-nightmares-do-not-go-away/feed/ 0 http://mymotherslife.com/2011/02/keeping-a-list-and-checking-it-twice/ http://mymotherslife.com/2011/02/keeping-a-list-and-checking-it-twice/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:55:30 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=526 Share|No matter what you may think, one needs to keep track of who comes to visit. Each time a doctor or nurse shows up, or a home support worker, details of that visit should be recorded. Don't trust your memory, get it down on paper, or something. The more records you keep, the better you can help the one you love.

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]]> http://mymotherslife.com/2010/09/no-rest-for-the-wicked/feed/ 0 http://mymotherslife.com/2010/03/substitute-workers/ http://mymotherslife.com/2010/03/substitute-workers/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:51:24 +0000 Only Son http://mymotherslife.com/?p=185 Share|There needs to be a change in attitude, if we want to insure that our health care system works for all people. The first step is to not think of it as a business, or that it must make a profit. There are hidden benefits, that you just can't put a price on. Yet we seem to do just that, by not insuring that in home care, is qualified. We need to stop hiding our heads, but actually address the issue of senior care, to help ease the financial strain on the system. It is just common sense.

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