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Sep. 15th, 2009 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hyuriso yeah, apparently his kidneys are recovering and starting to function properly again. so yay.
only now it seems that his problems swallowing, which he's been basically blowing off for a week and more, essentially amount to
I mean, okay, you get points for speaking directly to the man, but you lose most of them for a) shouting to handle his being partly deaf, and b) for treating him like a child. for fuck's sake, the man is 85 years old. he's not senile. you don't need to be demanding callbacks on the same piece of information a dozen times for as many sentences.
also, spending >95% of our time in your office for your
phrasing your explanations in such a way as to imply that failure to swallow effectively is the fault of the patient was just icing on the cake.
my horror at seeing my grandfather, always a pillar of strength in my life, reduced to a small, frail, terrified old man by your failure to consider your words is rivaled only by my frustration at being unable to properly rebuke you lest I destroy what little pride he has left by revealing that his reaction was visible.
only now it seems that his problems swallowing, which he's been basically blowing off for a week and more, essentially amount to
can't swallow at all. which amounts to
starving to death. and, I think probably largely due to the speech pathologist's presentation, is initially resistant to the idea of a feeding tube.
I mean, okay, you get points for speaking directly to the man, but you lose most of them for a) shouting to handle his being partly deaf, and b) for treating him like a child. for fuck's sake, the man is 85 years old. he's not senile. you don't need to be demanding callbacks on the same piece of information a dozen times for as many sentences.
also, spending >95% of our time in your office for your
explanation of how his swallowing isn't going rightterrifying my grandfather into thinking his only option is starving to death before presenting treatment options has put you into a hole that I don't think you're capable of digging out of.
phrasing your explanations in such a way as to imply that failure to swallow effectively is the fault of the patient was just icing on the cake.
my horror at seeing my grandfather, always a pillar of strength in my life, reduced to a small, frail, terrified old man by your failure to consider your words is rivaled only by my frustration at being unable to properly rebuke you lest I destroy what little pride he has left by revealing that his reaction was visible.
