“We took shifts, around the clock, getting visitation exceptions to at least have 1 person sitting in the room with her at all times. Because the doctors had the amazing ability to burst into a room and present options to a half-cognizant woman suffering from cancer and expect her to make a decision there-and-then.”
I Also lived through this doing night shifts every night for months switching with family members who all are in the medical or medically adjacent fields, having the fire hose of information shot in our direction for medical decisions that had to be made 24/7 For my intubated father in a medically induced coma for cerebral hemmoragic stroke.
The amount of Medical staff that visited at all hours of the day and night to take blood samples, do breathing treatments for intubation, soiled gown changing at their convenience (they would simply let your loved one sit in their soiled gown at odd hours of the day which leads to UTI and life threatening Septic shock had I not been their to sound the alarm).
All this plus medical errors at nursing shift change are very real concerns and happened shockingly often to us with wrong doses, late doses, miscommunications, etc. it is truly dizzinging and terrifying to say the least and my heart goes out to COVID patients who had family blocked from being bedside to advocate for their care prior to vaccine development.
Life is truly short, having stared the death of loved ones in the face you know your time will come to be in that same hospital bed. Make your time on this planet count. Forget the adtech and user manipulation/deception/surveillance gigs and use your software dev superpowers for doing good things to look back on from your hospital bed. That’s how my perspective has changed to live my life moving forward helping others with my tech skill set is truly humbling.
I Also lived through this doing night shifts every night for months switching with family members who all are in the medical or medically adjacent fields, having the fire hose of information shot in our direction for medical decisions that had to be made 24/7 For my intubated father in a medically induced coma for cerebral hemmoragic stroke.
The amount of Medical staff that visited at all hours of the day and night to take blood samples, do breathing treatments for intubation, soiled gown changing at their convenience (they would simply let your loved one sit in their soiled gown at odd hours of the day which leads to UTI and life threatening Septic shock had I not been their to sound the alarm).
All this plus medical errors at nursing shift change are very real concerns and happened shockingly often to us with wrong doses, late doses, miscommunications, etc. it is truly dizzinging and terrifying to say the least and my heart goes out to COVID patients who had family blocked from being bedside to advocate for their care prior to vaccine development.
Life is truly short, having stared the death of loved ones in the face you know your time will come to be in that same hospital bed. Make your time on this planet count. Forget the adtech and user manipulation/deception/surveillance gigs and use your software dev superpowers for doing good things to look back on from your hospital bed. That’s how my perspective has changed to live my life moving forward helping others with my tech skill set is truly humbling.