Better but not so great...Sunday was BAD. Since you asked, I will keep this as brief & factual as possible. I saw him last Saturday, he was having some kind of (hopefully) pain killer related dementia. Rough day for him and for me, I hate getting yelled at by crazy people without being able to yell back...
He had surgery just a couple weeks ago for a gangrenous intestinal blockage, and is having some digestive issues along with being weaned off some heavy duty meds. The surgery he had has brought him some incontinence. Early Sunday morning, he had an "issue" and basically was swimming in his own waste until 10:00am. He now has a nasty bed sore as well from this. My sister arrives at the hosp, and notices that they gave my dad a new wristband. It was a DNR band (do not resuscitate) which was meant for his roommate in the other bed. I call the hospital on Sunday, only to find that my dad's roommate had just died. The rest of the family heard his last gasps and everything. The roommate's family came in, they had some kind of bedside prayer (he was Serbian) and then they left, leaving the fucking body in the room with him, and the rest of my immediate family for over 30 minutes while my sister bitched about wtf was going on. They gave my sister a lot of 'tude. (she's been a nurse for over 30 years) Normal procedure is to remove the other patient, guests, or the deceased from the room to give them some privacy. Nope, they tagged him & bagged him while everybody else was still there. Quite the clusterfuck. They haven't heard the end of it yet, I imagine...
The worst part was the erroneous DNR band. Had my dad had some kind of heart attack, or stroke, they would have let him die. Whatever you do, don't get sick enough to be hospitalized. Seriously, anything more than an ER visit or outpatient surgery, take me out in a field and kill me. If you won't, I'll do it myself. I'm ready to revive the spirit of Richard Speck, and go apeshit nuclear ballistic on the nursing staff from his floor. There would have been a HUGE problem at the hospital had I been there Sunday instead of Saturday... Too many fucking SERIOUS mistakes made in too short of a time span....
So yeah, we need to get him the fuck outta there ASAP.......
