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Tag: father daughter relationship

Abandoned In Hell…Crest

I had been at Hillcrest Commons (Or as I liked to refer to it, Hell-Crest Commons) for 3 months. Jillian, the nurse practitioner overseeing my care, decided that we needed to have a meeting with all of my care team and my parents.

The meeting was an absolute disaster.

Every time I tried to talk to Jillian she insisted that my disease wasn’t as bad as I said it was and that she could get me off of most of my meds, off of the IV fluids, get my port removed, get me eating again, get my GJ tube removed, and get me walking with no assistive devices.  She had shared this viewpoint with my parents and got them so full of hope that they were willing to do just about anything with me or to me in order to get me there.

This was a big problem.

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Is a Homeless Shelter Really an Acceptable Discharge Place?

As time went on at Hell-Crest Commons, the nursing home I’d been living in since July of 2015 I was slowly settling in. I would work on classes for college online (I was only a couple classes short of graduating with a degree in Professional Writing Studies and a GPA of 3.98 from Elms College), I would go to some of the activities groups, I had gained privileges to wheel myself around the grounds of the nursing home by myself and I would go to the coffee shop and chat with various visitors, people from my unit that I met down there, and people from other units.  Some days I would go down to the lobby to sit on the couch and read or work on a personal writing project or make personal phone calls to friends from Facebook or family.

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