Don't let anyone tell you it's easy

Please don't let anyone tell you having a parent in a SNF is easy. My mom fell down and was discharged from the hospital into one. They were great for PT/OT, but the ratio of staff/patients sucked and they were not cautious about medicine, and they diapered people instead of getting them out of bed to go to the rest room. Laziness. Due to this perfect storm, She ended up with a massive GI bleed, A-Fib and has been in a PCU, back in the hospital. She has been cardioverted to have her heartbeat back to a normal rhythm, had a PIC line inserted, had massive black BM's due to the blood in the intestine.

Today she's having a white blood cell scan:

"A Nuclear Medicine WBC Scan is performed using a special radioactive material which is tagged to your white blood cells that, when injected into the body, is attached to sites of inflammation. Once distributed in these areas, the inflammation (infection) can be seen. "

"The blood tagging process is an all day exam, requiring you to return for several scans at the Nuclear Medicine Department. After the injection, you will need to return to the Nuclear Medicine Department four (4) hours later for the first picture. Once the actual scan is started it takes 60 - 90 minutes to complete depending on the area of your body being examined. White blood cells collect in infection areas very slowly. For this reason, it is necessary to repeat the scan portion of the exam again at five (5) hours and eight (8) hours after the initial injection so that several pictures can be studied. When you return to the Nuclear Medicine Department for delayed pictures it will take 60 - 90 minutes to complete the picture. However, the tagged white blood cell injection is only given on the initial visit."

I've been spending hours and hours sitting in uncomfortable chairs, have read 2 large romance novels on my Kindle. Watched football games with the sound off. And I'm tired beyond measure, pissed off beyond counting, and I wanted to share some of that with y'all. 

the exhausted bunny with a migraine.