Mom's going to talk with her sibs, but right now she is of the opinion that a cytoscopy would be a needlessly painful experience for him, since, if he DOES have more growths, she isn't sure she's willing to sacrifice his mental state to another surgery. And there's also the part where Dr. Dipwad didn't arrange for a nurse to come visit and clean the catheter insertion point, so Mom had to do it, and with Gramps being in a completely fucked-up place mentally, she also had to contend with him getting out of bed at odd hours (sometimes NAKED), wandering around the house looking for "a dance hall." And it took him three months to recover mentally from that. And here's the rub -- even if he HAD been kept in a hospital, he would've been put in 5-point restraints to keep him from getting out of bed, and he would've been discharged ANYWAY once he was physically better, regardless of his mental state.
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Date: 2009-10-07 12:06 pm (UTC)Augh. :(