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November 10, 2025 10 mins
Eddie went to do his usually weekend grocery shopping when something unexpected for him happened... He made a new friend???
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Emily had quite the week last week. Last week,
you were basically going to the hospital almost every day, Yeah,
visiting your dad. Your dad ended up in there having
some health issues, and so you had to go in
there quite a bit last week, right.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, I mean it's been like three weeks now, but
last week amped up. But like three weeks ago, he
went to the big VA hospital for the emergency room
and just breathing. He's just not the healthiest and so
he's okay, but he just needed to be in there
to be taken care of, get some medication stuff and
all that other stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
But he got super week.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
And so anyway, what Dae's referred to though, is like
last week he moved. He got moved to like the
rehabilitation hospital kind of a thing where it's not in
the big VA building.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's a smaller place.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's one floor, kind of a convalescent home kind of sense,
where there's some nurses and doctors and still running around.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
But it's a little bit like, you know, lower level.
It's not like the big VA hospital, but.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's still it's like a low level hospital. Right.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Still, eybody's in there, you know, not doing well.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You have his own room.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
He didn't. He didn't, I know because I got the VA.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
We've he's been in there so many times, like sometimes
he'll get in there and one time he was in
an eight man room. So it's four beds on one side,
four beds on the other facing each other, and they
have curtains, but it's like not everybody shuts their curtains.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's just such a while.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
It seems hard to get healthy, it seems hard.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
To get hell like that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Sorry not to get off topic, but our veterans shouldn't
be going through that.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm sorry. Sorry, totally not the best place to be honest.
There are great people there as well, but I just
had to get that out off our check. Thank you
for sure, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And so anyway, you got moved to this uh reabentation
you know, hospital last week, and I was going in there,
like Eddie said, to visit him almost every day after work,
and went in there the first time and kind of
like when I got in there, immediately I jumped into
action to kind of figure out what my dad's care

(02:05):
was going to be like and kind of start talking
to nurses and kind of get a lay of the land.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Of who's in charge and what's going on.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Oh you don't say that you would get in there
and try to take over things. How weird of you?
That seems so unlike you.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I don't think I was taking over things. And I
just wanted to get a feel for how things are going.
And immediately I could tell that these people were a
smich Annoyd, Like, They've got a lot of people. All
these guys that are in there are constantly ringing buttons
to call them in there, and then they're all getting
pissed when they're not coming to go answer them when
they need to get a glass of water, or they're

(02:41):
just being grumpy. So a lot of these, you know,
a lot of these guys are grumpy gusses. Like lots
of grumpy gusses, right, And so I did get in there,
asking lots of questions and all this other stuff, and
I could tell that they were a little annoyed with me.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, you know, were they probably like hoping for the
other sister.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh really a little bit, don't you say that? The
more these you she's way worse all really really.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
And so at that point though, I noticed that they're
not really coming to tend to my dad when he
was needing things. And so that's when like I noticed that,
like the little desk table thing that goes over him
when he's laying in bed so that he can eat
and put.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
All this stuff, I noticed it was like a little
bit sticky.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
And so that's when I see outside by the nurses
station a big pack of like sterile wet wipes that
they used to clean things off. And that's when I
go out there and I help myself to like three
or four of those wipes and bring them back to
my dad's room.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, and I start cleaning, and I start cleaning that,
and then.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Is this you're actually helping or you're just so fidgeting
that you want to do. Something has got to do.
You can't just sit there and visit with your dad.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I did that, Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Then I walked over with the same wipes that I had,
and I started wiping down the little shared bathroom sink
that they have and mirror and stuff, and start wiping
all that down. Well, I'm already doing this, so let's
just let's keep going. Let's keep going, start wiping down
the counter, wiping it down.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I decided that I was going to go take a
walk to see if I can look around the building
to see, like what's where and where my dad does this?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Pete and all this other stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, starts mopping the entire floor.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Signs that says wet floor on it, Like where do
you even get that?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
That's what I stumble upon upon the cafeteria.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
And when I stumble upon the cafeteria, right outside the cafeteria,
I see a little like sheet and some menus that
say alternate meal sign up. And I think that's when
the nurses are supposed to like sign up, Like they
give my dad an option if my dad doesn't want
to eat what they have. They have a basic menu
with like a turkey sandwich, PB and J, fruit plate,

(05:01):
all that hamburger, and they can order that if they
don't want.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
The other food the daily special.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
And so that's when I'm standing there. I know my
dad doesn't like the food that they have. So that's
when I grab the clipboard and I start filling out
the form to order my dad his own different meal,
which is the PBNJ and the fruit plate. I don't think,
so I'm starting to fill fill that up. They're very
spread thin here. You guys are very spread thin here.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Do you have to like put a signature next to
me his name, his.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Name, what he wants in the room and bed number,
which I know all of that. Of course I know
all of that. So then what the hell I'm doing?
And like, as I'm doing the clipboard and putting it
back in, I feel like I'm kind of getting a
flow for this place, Like I feel kind of in
my mind like I'm kind of walking around like I
kind of like almost almost like working here, like you don't.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
You don't work at the hospital. You don't at the hospital.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
To be honest each other, in the hall, and I'm
kind of doing a.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Head nod like you know, to in front places, filling
up a water for my dad that I went to
the nurses station, all this other stuff. Right what she's
like sitting up straight like she's official. Right now, I'm
helping They're clearly not helping enough him.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Okay, They're very busy, they're spread them.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
And so then I go back and I'm sitting with
my dad again, and I'm sitting at the bed. And
then that's when I see they bring in a new guy,
and the new guys getting settled into the bed that's closest.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
To the door. My dad's in the middle bed, which sucks.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
And this other guy he's sitting there and he's arguing
back and forth with the nurse because he wants to
go walk. And I'm overhearing some stuff that's going on.
I'm listening. I'm eavesdropping the whole time, and this guy
wants to.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Go for a walk.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
But I guess when you get there, the protocol is
you need to first be evaluated by the physical therapist
to see if you're a fall risk and to see
if you could go walking. By I'm hearing all this,
the older gentleman doesn't seem to really grasp it, and
he's just being angry, grumpy gus.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's grubbing us. He sees eye.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I can walk. I've been walking for eighty five years.
I bought for this country. Get the hell away.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
From me, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm loving his attitude, by the way, and my dad's
my dad's making faces.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's a whole scene. And so then the nurse leaves.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Then all of a sudden, this guy is kind of
like he's kind of frustrated, obviously because he can't go
walk on his own.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
So he picks up his.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Phone and he calls somebody in his family and he's
on the hospital like the hospital phone, and he's talking
to somebody. And that's when this gentleman apparently had seen
me shuffling around, thought I was a nurse that worked there,
because he kept walking over and staring at me, giving
me the eye because he thinks that I'm one of

(07:53):
the people that's keeping him down, and he could sign
a nurse. But he says, hey, there, would you please
talk to my sister in Pennsylvania for me?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
What you.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I heard him ask this, and I go, you know what,
I can help this guy out. I did hear him
say there's a nurse here and I want you to talk.
You're not a nurse, and so he asked me, he goes, hey,
can you talk to my sister from Pennsylvania? What I go, absolutely, absolutely,
because I heard enough what's going on and he's trying

(08:26):
to explain it to her.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
He's not doing a good job about it. And I
heard I heard the guy. I know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
My dad's been in this place like three other times.
I know the deal. Another deal.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
So I pick up the phone and say, Hi there,
it's Pat.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
By the way, of course, Pat for Pennsylvania. I do
explain to her that I am not a nurse. I
do say that, Thank God, I do say that we.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Would have some legal liabilities. I do explain that. She
said she was the doctor, and so I do say that.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
And then I say, here's what's going on with your dad,
with your with your brother, here's what's going on. He
needs to be evaluated by physical therapy, and then they're
going to let him walk around. Once they do that,
it's a whole process. It's going to take a while.
They take a while to come et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. As I'm sitting here doing this, the actual nurse.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
And says, ma'am, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Who are you because I just saw you sitting here
visiting bed number two, and can you tell me why
you're talking to somebody in bed number number three? And
I said, oh, I am visiting my dad in bed
number two. But I just heard there was a bit
of a struggle going on with communication with this gentleman
and his sister, and so I thought I'd jump in

(09:41):
and help out.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
A little bit.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's when his face is like, I'm sorry, man, that's
completely inappropriate. There are laws here wo and there's hippo
laws that are being violated right now by me talking
to a patient's parent related to and asked me to
not do that anymore and to stop trying to help out.
It was Oh, it was mortified all of that happened.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean all that happened because you can't sit still.
Because you can't sit still, that's not true. Yes, they
were probably waiting for you to do something because like
this chick, she's yes, go and get in our supply.
She's writing on our charts, she's diagnosing patients. What the
hell is going on?

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Somebody had to Okay, I don't think somebody had to.
She gives somebody a sponge mab. The hell is going on?
It's a little much, little much, okay, So lesson learned.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
What they know.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
You violated the loss again. Nutcase case

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