Re: Lost Teeth

[Guest guest]

Marilyn,

Things like dentures and eye glasses get lost all the time at nursing homes. My

mom and and another lady's glasses disappeared at one nursing home. We looked

in drawers, everywhere, and finally both families had replacements made. A year

after she transfered to a different nursing home, I found both pairs (hers and

the other lady's) in the bottom of a box of her things, in a small pouch that

the nursing home personnel had velcro-ed onto her old walker. Why they didn't

look in it, when it had been attached to her walker, I'll never know. In her

last nursing home, she would be missing her glasses, wearing someone else's,

etc. And it happens with dentures, too. They take them out and set them down,

and someone else picks them up and puts them in their own mouth. Or they are

taken out to clean, and more than one person shares the bathroom, and they go

back to the wrong mouth. It's crazy, but it's about guaranteed to happen, and

it will happen repeatedly. You might want to hold off on replacing them,

because they will probably show up, but not necessarily.

Gurganus

> >

> > She got to King's yesterday. I went to see her last night, she was very

> > confused, said she thought she remembered being there before, but she didn't

> > remember the rules and regulations, or any of the people, didn't know where

> > she belonged or what she was supposed to do. When I walked in she was so

> > lost, and clung to me as if I were the only familiar thing to her - which I

> > was.

> >

> > She asked over and over again what happened to her. I told her that she

> > needed a med adjustment, that she goes to the hospital every 6 months or so

> > for it, and that within a few days she'd be fine, as she always is after a

> > few days back at King's. I don't know that that will be true but it made

> > her feel better and she won't remember anyway. She'd only been back from

> > the hospital a few hours and didn't remember it at all...

> >

> > When she left, her memory was fantastic, her personality was strong and

> > intact, and she was in control of herself for the most part. After she was

> > drugged and shipped hours away, just because she was acting out from a

> > simple bladder infection, she's lost it all. She is scared, lost, totally

> > confused, and childlike. I am furious, this ALL could have been avoided...

> >

> > Anyway, I'm working with the ombudsman now, and she will be helping me in

> > dealing with King's, and making sure that they do the things that need to be

> > done for my mom. In addition, they have a man that, if I give my

> > permission, will go to check on my mom weekly, will review her chart, and

> > make sure that her plan - which the ombudsman (Sharon is her name) and I

> > will work with the DON and social worker to put in place. He apparently is

> > very assertive about making sure things are done the way they are supposed

> > to be done.

> >

> > If anyone has worked this closely with an ombudsman before, I'd like to know

> > how it worked out for you, and how they were able to help you. I'm stepping

> > out into the unknown here, but I can't let this happen to my mom again.

> >

> > Thanks for listening ...once again!

> >

> > His,

> > Sherry s

> > www.owly.net

> > daughter of , (mis?)diagnosed with AD in 2005, diagnosed with LBD March

> > 2008; in a NH, taking Aricept/Namenda, Seroquel, and Effexor for depression.

> > http://www.facebook .com/Sherry sMI - also tweet with the #lewybody

> > hashtag .

> >

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