When I look at this woman, I see sad eyes with a semi forced grin. I see pain in this woman's face of having lost a loved one-- her father. Her dad appears to have had a very happy-go-lucky personality; like he was really fun to be around and such a loving man. This picture appears to have been taken in her home because you can see a small portion of what appears to be her wedding picture behind her, which makes the photo that much more personal.
This picture on its own just shows the loss of this woman's father, but what you don't see is the part you have to read into. This man entered the hospital for hormone treatment when he found out he had cancer. The hospital he was taken to was very unsanitary and not fit to have any patient in, let alone someone who would be at such high risk for infections. Because of cases like this, hospitals should be looked at much more closely. The regulations need to actually be enforced and have employees that want to care. With those few additions, it could make hospitals much more effective and of course, safer.
When a close family member of anyone's becomes ill and needs health care assistance, people want to know that they are being taken care of in the best way possible. They want to see nurses and doctors that are personable and compassionate and it seems these kinds of people are becoming increasingly scarce. When I worked in the hospital, I worked with about 100 different people. Out of those, I think I met about 4 people that genuinely cared. The others it just felt as if they were stuck in a redundant routine in that they did the exact same things everyday with no variations. I found many of them essentially doing the bare minimum to get through the day. They weren't going to do anything excessive that could have made someone more comfortable. During hard times like this, patients want to feel at home as much as possible to create a pleasant environment which in the end helps to heal the patient and comfort the family.
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
I have heard of so much hurt about elderly family members who were neglected or abused by hospitals, assisted living homes or nursing homes. I have been fortunate enough to not have had a family member in that situation, but I've lost 2 grandparents, volunteer at nursing homes and my grandmother lives in an assisted living home. I could not imagine having something like this happen to my grandmother. Thinking of this man laying in his hospital bed in the same sheets he has laid in for the past 2 weeks and not having clean gowns infuriates me. It sends your mind into a whirlwind thinking "how much longer could he have lived if there was never an infection caused by the filth?" "how many people actually go through this same scenarios?" and "how can people live with themselves knowing they did not help to prevent a death and what can we do to change this?" Neglection of a person who is unable to help themselves is just horrendous. Something has to be done in order to prevent these kinds of things from happening. I can only make suggestions of improvements that could be made, but it is up to everyone to make sure new and stricter rules are enforced. We cannot have our hospital losing many of their patients due to preventable causes and families losing loved ones because of someone's lack of care. It's in times such as these when you just want to say to all the doctors and nurses "What if this were YOUR dad?”
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