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So, I got vaccinated, along with my family, a few months ago because we were planning a vacation to Jamaica and getting fake-vaxxed was/is a requirement to go there. I'd spent WAY too ******* much money on the trip to just eat it (since, you know, Airlines and resorts can pretty much **** YOU for any reason they want, but they NEVER have to lose a ******* dime.)
So, we ended up NOT going to Jamaica because the ******* 'Rona was SOOOOO bad that the U.S. State Dept. advised people not to go because they were unlikely to let you back in. (They'll let ANYONE from the southern border just walk right in. Hell they'll fly you to Florida, but if you're a ******* U.S. citizen... You'll ******* sit in a foreign country until they decide you aren't a health risk to ... I don't know - somebody.
So, anyway, all vaxxed. Planning on going to Mexico in a few weeks. (Mexico, btw doesn't give a flying **** if you have the black plague. They ******* WELCOME any tourism they can get. And as for returning? Well, the U.S. doesn't have a mechanism to **** their own citizens will allowing anyone with a ******* pulse to walk right in, so ... feel free to visit and return from Mexico without ANY LIMITATIONS whatsoever.
But I digress.
My dad slipped and fell on some ice in early December. He got a concussion (no broken bones, thank God) and at the time he had a very slight brain bleed. We were told to keep an eye on him and if anything seemed odd to get him in for another scan. He went home and his Dr. basically said, "Take it easy. You'll have some concussion based issues with memory and balance. Otherwise, you're great."
Fast forward a couple months. My step mother wrote me a couple days ago saying that Dad was getting confused and that when he drove any distance at all he became a bit disoriented. I made arrangements to come visit him this weekend.
I get a text the following day (Weds) that he awoke that morning unable to speak coherently. He had a headache which quickly escalated to excruciating. My stepmother took him to the hospital in Missoula, MT about an hour away and 5 hours later they were doing emergency surgery to drain the massive amount of blood that had filled the left side of his brain cavity and was causing tremendous pressure.
So, I jump in my car, drive the 2 hours to get to Missoula so I can be there when he comes out of surgery. His wife had been there all day and she was exhausted so she went home to take care of their animals and get some sleep. I, of course, stayed in the waiting room.
4 hours later, he's out and in recovery. I get a call from the nurse. She tells me that he'll be going into ICU for the night and it's too late for visitors, but it's quiet in the recovery room so I can stop by for a few minutes and see him. I'm grateful and I got to visit with him for about 15 minutes.
I'm told visiting hours in the ICU start at 9:00 a.m. so I tell Dad that I'll be back in the a.m. The nurse writes down the room number that he'll be in and I take off to stay in my hotel for the night after stopping for a burger and a couple beers.
This morning I get up, shower and head over to the hospital. The stepmother told me she wouldn't be able to get back until after lunch, so she was very happy that I would be there in the morning. I go and get ready to sign in and the lady at the front desk informs me "Now, you know only one person can visit him, right?"
I say, "Ok, 1 person at a time. That's fine." She says, "No. Only one person for the duration of his stay. It has to be the same person throughout. You know, to help stop the spread of the corona virus."
So, I drove better than 4 hours. Sat for another 4 hours in a waiting room, paid for a hotel and dinner so I could see him for about 15 minutes. Now keep in mind, I wasn't contacted by or talked to by any Doctor or nurse other than the nurse who called and asked if I was still in the waiting room and if I'd like to see him for a few minutes before he went up to ICU. (I am very grateful for that, btw).
I explained that My Dad had been vaccinated, as had I and my stepmother. The lady at the front said, "Oh, that doesn't matter."
Because I'm in full on passive aggressive ******* mode now, I ask her "So you're not recommending that people get vaccinated anymore, then." She of course responds, "Oh, yes. we definitely recommend that people get vaccinated." I asked "Why? Clearly getting vaccinated does absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting or apparently spreading the virus so what is the point?"
She could tell by now that I was pissed and was simply attempting to seem polite so she responded "I'm sorry, it's hospital policy. If your father wants to see you, you can be the one person that goes to visit him. But nobody else will be allowed."
I wanted to vent my entire ******* annoyance on the poor woman, but it's not her ******* fault the world is completely ******* moronically stupid. I WANTED to ask her who the ONE nurse is that can see him, understanding, as your realize, that OBVIOUSLY they can't allow TWO NURSES to go into his room. And then I wanted to ask, "So when he is moved from ICU to a standard room, I assume his ONE nurse will be moved to that floor as well, yes?"
I realize I'm venting now, but I'm so ******* annoyed. See, I know the rule is bullshit, and if you were paying attention YOU know the rule is bullshit. They let ME come see him last night in the recovery room. If only ONE person can see him for the duration of his visit, clearly that meant that I had ALREADY been the ONE person. But the nurse in the recovery room has a soul and realized that it was the human thing to do to let me see my dad.
I just wish she'd have told me then that I wouldn't be able to visit him the following day so I wouldn't have wasted money and time off from work to do nothing but come talk to the ******* front desk lady.
So, we ended up NOT going to Jamaica because the ******* 'Rona was SOOOOO bad that the U.S. State Dept. advised people not to go because they were unlikely to let you back in. (They'll let ANYONE from the southern border just walk right in. Hell they'll fly you to Florida, but if you're a ******* U.S. citizen... You'll ******* sit in a foreign country until they decide you aren't a health risk to ... I don't know - somebody.
So, anyway, all vaxxed. Planning on going to Mexico in a few weeks. (Mexico, btw doesn't give a flying **** if you have the black plague. They ******* WELCOME any tourism they can get. And as for returning? Well, the U.S. doesn't have a mechanism to **** their own citizens will allowing anyone with a ******* pulse to walk right in, so ... feel free to visit and return from Mexico without ANY LIMITATIONS whatsoever.
But I digress.
My dad slipped and fell on some ice in early December. He got a concussion (no broken bones, thank God) and at the time he had a very slight brain bleed. We were told to keep an eye on him and if anything seemed odd to get him in for another scan. He went home and his Dr. basically said, "Take it easy. You'll have some concussion based issues with memory and balance. Otherwise, you're great."
Fast forward a couple months. My step mother wrote me a couple days ago saying that Dad was getting confused and that when he drove any distance at all he became a bit disoriented. I made arrangements to come visit him this weekend.
I get a text the following day (Weds) that he awoke that morning unable to speak coherently. He had a headache which quickly escalated to excruciating. My stepmother took him to the hospital in Missoula, MT about an hour away and 5 hours later they were doing emergency surgery to drain the massive amount of blood that had filled the left side of his brain cavity and was causing tremendous pressure.
So, I jump in my car, drive the 2 hours to get to Missoula so I can be there when he comes out of surgery. His wife had been there all day and she was exhausted so she went home to take care of their animals and get some sleep. I, of course, stayed in the waiting room.
4 hours later, he's out and in recovery. I get a call from the nurse. She tells me that he'll be going into ICU for the night and it's too late for visitors, but it's quiet in the recovery room so I can stop by for a few minutes and see him. I'm grateful and I got to visit with him for about 15 minutes.
I'm told visiting hours in the ICU start at 9:00 a.m. so I tell Dad that I'll be back in the a.m. The nurse writes down the room number that he'll be in and I take off to stay in my hotel for the night after stopping for a burger and a couple beers.
This morning I get up, shower and head over to the hospital. The stepmother told me she wouldn't be able to get back until after lunch, so she was very happy that I would be there in the morning. I go and get ready to sign in and the lady at the front desk informs me "Now, you know only one person can visit him, right?"
I say, "Ok, 1 person at a time. That's fine." She says, "No. Only one person for the duration of his stay. It has to be the same person throughout. You know, to help stop the spread of the corona virus."
So, I drove better than 4 hours. Sat for another 4 hours in a waiting room, paid for a hotel and dinner so I could see him for about 15 minutes. Now keep in mind, I wasn't contacted by or talked to by any Doctor or nurse other than the nurse who called and asked if I was still in the waiting room and if I'd like to see him for a few minutes before he went up to ICU. (I am very grateful for that, btw).
I explained that My Dad had been vaccinated, as had I and my stepmother. The lady at the front said, "Oh, that doesn't matter."
Because I'm in full on passive aggressive ******* mode now, I ask her "So you're not recommending that people get vaccinated anymore, then." She of course responds, "Oh, yes. we definitely recommend that people get vaccinated." I asked "Why? Clearly getting vaccinated does absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting or apparently spreading the virus so what is the point?"
She could tell by now that I was pissed and was simply attempting to seem polite so she responded "I'm sorry, it's hospital policy. If your father wants to see you, you can be the one person that goes to visit him. But nobody else will be allowed."
I wanted to vent my entire ******* annoyance on the poor woman, but it's not her ******* fault the world is completely ******* moronically stupid. I WANTED to ask her who the ONE nurse is that can see him, understanding, as your realize, that OBVIOUSLY they can't allow TWO NURSES to go into his room. And then I wanted to ask, "So when he is moved from ICU to a standard room, I assume his ONE nurse will be moved to that floor as well, yes?"
I realize I'm venting now, but I'm so ******* annoyed. See, I know the rule is bullshit, and if you were paying attention YOU know the rule is bullshit. They let ME come see him last night in the recovery room. If only ONE person can see him for the duration of his visit, clearly that meant that I had ALREADY been the ONE person. But the nurse in the recovery room has a soul and realized that it was the human thing to do to let me see my dad.
I just wish she'd have told me then that I wouldn't be able to visit him the following day so I wouldn't have wasted money and time off from work to do nothing but come talk to the ******* front desk lady.
