Good Day "59"

Bern had one done almost five years ago and was walking on the quantocks after six weeks Ron has no problem with it,   so just hope this one will be the same, he has been out of bed today .

we still have the ice packs from last time

Well done Pat (or Bern) but I always said I was the unlucky one!

Hope he gets away with the same sort of recovery, very well done indeed.

Glad to hear everything went well on the operation Pat...sounds about right also, my hubby came home the next day also...and he recovered really well also.

Yes, I can remember working an double shift if people didn't show up, having to re-write my entire work schedule to be able to go home 24 hours later to sleep finally...I can remember my people never got an Christmas Party unless we supervisors chipped in to pay for it..and or gave gifts to our employees independently and shared with them...the year my mother died was the first time in 5 years we had everyone at home for Christmas Dinner together, it was later on greeted with an knock from the door, and one of my employees son's there, having drank to much that day, telling us he needed an job...as he'd just got fired....did we know where he could work?  I also after my mother died...hd one of my school girls quit school to work for me so thatI could attend to my mother's funeral...because they didn't want to give me time off for that either.Most the time I put five hours into my job weekly that I wasn't paid for doing "paperwork" they insisted needed done also. I was always told I was over budget to they could find someway to strip off my deptatment of what little it had to begin with. The austrosities were the reason why someone called in an "union" to begin with...it ended with most of us losing our jobs... and the place closing down several times... and rebought by others..which meant everyone started over again at the miinium wage. As an supervisor I guess you know I was told we never were allowed to get sick or have any problems as we were on duty 24 hours 7 in our job coming first in our lives. So few of us felt like we missed anything leaving the place...and we had no health insurance back then, no pension plan, no benefits. Before Novak's came along...i saw my hubby once every 6 weeks in thier stupid crazy "rotation" hours they issued to us all to work. When he came along, he allowed me to name my own working shift...out of the month, I rotated Friday/Saturday....Saturday/Sunday..and Sunday/Monday off an worked one weekend an month...with all my employees doing the same also. I hired one school girl to work every weekend or as an "stand by" for emergency situations. I got rid of the night shift also...so Icould count on sleeping every night...by taking the money from that wage and putting it into more hsopital linens and then stagering my shifts of work...starting at 5 am in the morning to end at 4:30 pm. daily. I eventually was given Fridays as an day to attend meetings and to do th epaper work and handle problems in gneral...esp personal patient clothing and inventrory and chemical supplies. My girls when I left were given an honoary "career" over what had been there prior as an "job".  They went to the Laundry "teamsters" union by my request before leaving my position..and them closing down my department entirely. Yes, I well rember those days. I walked into the first day 120 pqtients with no names on anything...so every and anyone could take someone else's clothing..whatever else they wanted also. I was the first one to be asked to be left an "morning report" so I knew where they moved the patient and to

what room...I was the first one to cite all linens to be pre-rinsed if there was an bowle movement in the clothing...I was the first one use to clear off the dishes on my linen cart, and when they thought they were one better then I was on the floor, by litterally knocking the dished on the floor...citing cross-contamination...I was the first one to see to it there were"isolation" procedures for patients with open sores of any kind..first one ot ask for gloves to be used for picking up soiled clothes...the first one had an daily maintence program for washing down the carts and the laundry and machines in general...the first one to have the industurial drier vents cleaned out from the time the place had first opened...the only one that had any prior "hospital" laundry experinence...I demanded screened doors on the laundry in the summer time to eleviate the 120 degrees inside the department, being un-air conditioned, First one to set up an control inventory for buying and releasing clothing in an cycle, so they didn't wear out all at once, and write operational booklets for training employees, running my department, and takign care of the machines in it. At one time I got an nickel more of being an supervisor and worked my way up to 25 cents an hour more...for th emost part we were all nearly at the minium wage. Finally...I was the only one that personnally took upon me the task of cleaning the chapel linens on the altar..and the only one that ever did that I'm aware of. Ialso helped with Marge Jacoby see to it patients were given the clothing they needed, if needed ..such as shoes for going outside the facility..usually free of charge or for very little money.... for some patients "dry cleaning" services were instituted...whcih they didn't have prior...and I cleaned up one room of boxes of unknown clothing...to furnish the staff with an new employees coffee room...and I had mainly only one more worker for about 20 more patients in the facilty by the time I left....and we had plans then to make things even better, before I left...but thes three boozes they brought in, destroyed the whole business with their so called "expertise" you see. Their "expertise" you see, netted pocket money for them, not the facilty or the people running it, and it became an "lost cause" to stay there any longer.

So much for that 10 year job. I consider it my "sacrific" in the name of the Lord... to have stayed there and put up with the ordeal as I did back then. In part to the memory of the people that first opened it for decent nursing care also. They were doing likewise in the nursing area with Casey Decoursing....whom basically instituted the first "recongnized" training course for nurse's aides... in the nursing field in general in Portland..now the education is required.. We had taken this deplipated old welfare "old folks" home and eventually made it into an private Veterans cerifified nursing home, one whom the patients were sent from area hospital by docotor referrals to recouperate from extended injuries or surgeries and medicare approved by the Federal Govt,..and state regulated laws..semi-private out patient hospital. After it sold, it's never went to that caliber that I'm aware ever since. 

I asked before I left if they would institute one other thing...one wing donated to the nursing program for young people taking nursing training through our local college, as an lwo cost dormitory ...they never did it and they have no really recongnised nursing program "on site" as many of the hospitals in Portland do, we were on the bus line to Mt. Hood Community College and still are I guess. Because of me, and my accident, and my old neighbor being an city judge...202nd street received stop lights it's entire length...at this corner of an bus stop..where the week before where I was hit, by thsi guy going 70 mph..  an drunk driver...one of our young girls was hit by an car.... trying to get on the bus. Enough said for working there.

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