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[Westley Annis]

Yes,  they would be in the same predicament but at least most of them would
still be alive. It would be worth the fallout of getting cussed at, fussed
at, unappreciated, and disrespected if you have saved lives. There is just
no pleasing everyone.
 
Laurie  


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> sponsibility of someone's day-to-day care, that doesn't mean in fair

> weather also.

> 

> However, even IF all the nursing home residents were evacuated (Not just

St

> Rita, but all those other homes that stayed) they would have been in the

> same predicament as the residents that DID evacuate, with staff and family

> and pets who had also no home anymore, and NO PLACE TO RETURN to.

> Those residents had evacuation sites or shelters for a temporary stay but

> not permanent. 

> Permanent placement had to be found for so many, and, having been on the

> evacuating end, the 'trying to find placement' end and then on the

> receiving end, there were many angry relatives who tried to find their

loved

> ones and finally did in other homes, where they were admitted without

proper

> information, without any family signing consents etc, and again one got

> cussed for shanghai-ing (interesting word I learned) momma. 

> Well, DHH begged the facilities to take in more people than they had rooms

> or beds, hallways were crowded with people, just to be cursed out later,

> suspiciously questioned, and in some cases fined for deficiencies

resulting

> from the overcrowding. Cant win when taking care of the aging. It is as if

> the few healtcare workers who DO somehow feel called to work in this

field,

> get shit on literally and figuratively. 

> I cant really take much of the criticism seriously from those who never

> walked in those shoes.

> 

> Gaby - working in longterm care for almost three decades.

> To live only for some future goal is shallow. 

> It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

> 

> -Robert M. Pirsig