One of my agencies asked me to take a patient looking for a caregiver to help with bathing. The man was not expected to live too long, and his wife needed help with his day to day care. The man was a heart patient and had no tubes, sores or drains, so it sounded like an easy case, a shower-and-dress kind of visit. I also liked getting clients through an agency because I did not have to make tax installments…..
This next story would not seem out of place in a police movie or on the eleven o’clock news. However, this story never made the papers or the news, because nobody, including me, ever reported it. See if you can understand why. I was taking care of a woman with diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was morbidly obese as well. She lived in a single-wide mobile home with her husband and her little dog. She was of the era…..
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