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— James Melville (@JamesMelville) October 12, 2020
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That is what is coming for the united States and anyone over 60!
I have rounds on Tuesdays of every week at our local “Nursing Home.’
The lockdown has been devastating on these poor people– many have degrees of dementia but over half with full cognition but debilitating morbidities which make self-care impossible. Thus they reside in a skilled nursing setting.
Since the Lockdown– a facility of 132 beds with usual census of 110- 120 residents has had 41 deaths. NONE from covid. In 2019 there were 19 deaths for the entire year.
A high percentage of the deaths were the “dementia unit” residents. In April, the dementia wing was shut down, all of the patients were stripped of their familiar surroundings, roommates and activities and squeezed into the other 3 wings randomly wherever beds were available– this was done so that the locked down dementia wing could be turned into a “Covid Isolation Area.” We have had ZERO admissions in the empty Covid/dementia wing to date.
A nursing home resident’s day consists of: ( on average since function and cognition differ).. they are gotten out of bed and into a wheelchair at their bedside for breakfast. Cleaned up, meds, dressed etc… then they sit in the chair, in their 8x 12 rooms until lunch. They are fed lunch, dinner and at around 6 they are back in bed for the next 12-13 hours. Sunday through Saturday there is no variation. For a while even their doors had to stay closed. They are not allowed to leave their rooms. They are not allowed visits from family, friends, clergy etc.
For the past 6 months the Activities Dept has been shut down. Where once there were local entertainers, the garden club, arts and crafts, bingo 3x per week, a robust and laughing main dining hall, music groups, weekly religious services etc, now there is NONE.
These people are not living their lives, they are just alive. However many are no longer alive. There are orders to reduce sending patients “out” to the adjoining hospital unless in distress. Patients that do go out and come back are locked in isolation for 14 days– EVEN THOUGH they have already been tested and are negative prior to re-admission. Many of those that have died essentially gave up. Quit eating, refused to get out of bed and just died. Many only had family visits and simple pleasures like Bingo or Sunday services to live for–their simplest reasons for holding onto life have been taken from them and they are dying at 2.5x the normal rate–and again I repeat, the DID NOT die from Covid but from the Lockdown.
It is an eerie prison and it hurts me to the soul as I walk down the hallways to my patient’s rooms. Sad and lonely faces peer out toward the hallway, longingly hoping for a single smile, a wave, a kind hello from anyone who passes by as they remain sequestered in forced isolation. I challenge anyone to debate me on whether or not nursing home life is not only a prison currently, but whether it may actually be worse than a prison. Think about the punishment area of a prison with the mental torture of solitary confinement and you can now envision what is being done to these elders– mothers, honored war vets, accomplished professioinals..doomed to end their life lonely, declining function and yes, afraid.
Not afraid of the virus, you can ask them– they are afraid of continuing life in these conditions.
But this is all done to protect the elderly, right Javelin? If “they” want to kill the elderly, at least just put them out of their misery, like we do dogs. You know I’m being sarcastic, right? Did you hear about the protest by the residents in a nursing home in Greeley, CO? They had signs that said “I’d rather die of Covid than die of loneliness”.
We are going to have to answer for this some day.
I am a firm believer that the ULTIMATE test of self-ownership is the right to commit suicide or request and receive assistance. That may upset some, but you either own your own body, or you are the property of someone else – a slave.
I have told my wife and son that I would rather be taken to Key West and told to swim to Cuba that to be put in one of those facilities and I am 100% serious. I would rather get killed by sharks or drown than to be sentenced to die in a nursing home.
I’ll die free or in a pile of hot brass.
I told them this 20 years ago after watching the people who were in the same nursing home as my Mother-in-law. In today’s world, I would take the hot brass way out.
When one becomes a danger to themselves and others as a result of Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia, some facilities can provide a very nice place to live. In my mom’s case, after 3 weeks of threatening to murder my wife and I while we slept and burn the house down, there was no other choice. Medications to curb the anxiety that comes from brain death and the loss of short term memory, helped her to have a relatively enjoyable last 2 years of life. She befriended a lot of people, got to see more of Atlanta than we had in 10 years on outings, and was so comfortable that she thought that where she lived was the house her husband and her had bought years before. I’m not praising all the places in any way, and even hers had issues. But we do not have medical freedom in this country, any sense of self-ownership, any rights to die as we choose, etc. I know my mom would rather have died than ended up there. She honestly thought she would die at her work desk and so made no plans for her retirement life. She never even made out a will, but was certainly never given the opportunity to make out a “living will” that would have provided for a “gentle exit” should Alzheimer’s or similar condition have befallen her. Such a thing bothers a lot of folks, but even where assisted suicide is legal, one must be within 6 months of death and of sound mind at the time of death. I can think of no better situation than terminal dementia as a justification for an “exit clause” kicking in if you made such a decision when of sound mind. Just my opinion. Indeed, everyone should have a right to stay out of these places if they so desire. Let us all be so lucky.
They surveyed the citizens of Sweden, where they did NO full-blown lockdowns, but, because the government cares for most of the elderly, they had massive numbers of dead from the virus among that population. They asked them all how they felt about NOT doing a nationwide lockdown. The results, grouped by age, showed that the elderly (the most vulnerable) were happiest that there had been no lockdown or destruction of the economy. The pussies in the 20-30 category were the most upset that they hadn’t shut down the economy.
What was done to folks in nursing homes, memory care facilities, assisted living facilities, etc. is nothing short of CRIMINAL. I am so blessed that my mother passed away before having to live through this. With her Alzheimer’s, there is no way she would ever have understood why my wife and I could not visit her in person. We absolutely would have pulled her out of her memory care facility and done the best we could, but she was very happy where she was. What the government did, what Cuomo did, what others did, should be punishable by death in my opinion. Meanwhile, while loved ones were not allowed to visit, staff, most of whom have families, children, and other jobs even at other care facilities, came and went and spread the virus, killing tens of thousands. The health community had ONE JOB….protect the elderly. And they fucked that up completely.
Had my beloved father in law not passed 2 years ago his son and I would have engineered a night time “jail” break right out his sliding glass door, onto the patio, and into the waiting vehicle for a 10 hour drive to an undisclosed location out of state. They would never have found us and he would have been under the doting care of his loving daughter-morning, noon, and night. Coffee in the morning, lunch, a light dinner, meds, and tuck the old boy in at bedtime. Rinse and repeat. And once or twice a week pop a can of his favorite beer and split it with him along with some popcorn. Screw the rules.
I don’t know who I hate more….the devils perpetrating and perpetuating this nightmare or the cowards not fighting it.
Both.
This is day 215. I have walked down each morning (I’ve missed only a few) to tap on the window of my mother’s room, much like the video posted by SeeBee
But my mother is mentally alert for a 92 yr. old. The hard hearing aggravates the communication thru a window, but for each of those mornings she has been content. I have only heard one complaint from her, other than the usual “different girl made my bed wrong” type stuff, and that complaint is how they have not been able to go down the hall to the little chapel for Sunday services……
Javelin’s comment was a perfect description:
“A nursing home resident’s day consists of: ( on average since function and cognition differ).. they are gotten out of bed and into a wheelchair at their bedside for breakfast. Cleaned up, meds, dressed etc… then they sit in the chair, in their 8x 12 rooms until lunch. They are fed lunch, dinner and at around 6 they are back in bed for the next 12-13 hours. Sunday through Saturday there is no variation. For a while even their doors had to stay closed. They are not allowed to leave their rooms. They are not allowed visits from family, friends, clergy etc.
For the past 6 months the Activities Dept has been shut down. Where once there were local entertainers, the garden club, arts and crafts, bingo 3x per week, a robust and laughing main dining hall, music groups, weekly religious services etc, now there is NONE.”
Thanks for writing it, Javelin
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<———–===
Ordo…you’re a good soul. It sounds as if your mom is not being tortured because she has her wits about her and might rip them a new one. But, if this is the state of our elderly, let the state of our States implode.
You know these poor people are missing the human touch. My wife used to visit her Mother daily and would always hold her hand, hug her and kiss her hello and good bye. When I went with her, Mom would like to hold my hand because it was warm.
I am glad my wife does not have to go through this, it would kill her to not see her Mom.
Activities are the lifeblood of a memory care facility. With no sound cognitive skills, entertainment and distractions are all that keep the demons of dementia away. Thankfully your mom at least can understand why (even though there is truly no good reason why. I can’t imagine what my mom would have thought or the fear and anxiety she would have faced with Alzheimer’s in this situation. I would likely have ended up in jail for what I would have done. Good for you for making the trek and facing this insane condition to see her.
That’s just pathetically sad.