Rehabilitation Failures in NYC, Nursing Home Stories
She does not wake up naturally in the morning. At around five AM or six AM, the attendant on duty comes in, turns the light on, wakes her up and demands that she takes the medication. Once again, the woman argues that she never had high-blood pressure and does not need the high blood pressure pills but the nurse insists that she needs to take it. The nurse claims that the pill is keeping her blood pressure low, even though the patient knows that she never had high blood pressure before. She takes the medicine, against her will and tries to go back to sleep.
Once she is awake, though, it is hard or impossible to go back to sleep. She will wait in her room until around 7 or 8 AM and then go to breakfast in the community dining room. Once again, the breakfast is not the food that she wants and once again, she is reminded that the food given to her is what she needs and that is all she can have. She, reluctantly picks at the food there and pretends to eat some. What a day, and it is only breakfast time. What else will this day bring? She thinks that the rules in this place are kind of funny. On one hand she is not allowed to bring in non-kosher foods into the building but on the other hand she is permitted to smoke outdoors or in the smoking room. What kind of rules are these that permit a person to kill themselves with cigarettes but will not permit any non-kosher food on the premises? She goes along anyway, and follows orders. She has seen and knows what happens to those who do not follow orders. She has already told her family that she is afraid to complain because she saw what they did to people who complain.
Now, it is breakfast, and she is eating the food that she cares not for. She waits for the next schedule and she wishes that she could make a schedule of her own instead of having to sleep, eat and even use the restroom when someone else's says it is time or says it is okay. I will pick up the pace of this true story after I begin another article. The other article will be Part Three.
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