Mama Carol

BAKERSFIELD, CA - The administrator of Bakersfield's Glenwood Gardens confirmed Friday the retirement facility has a policy: Employees do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation on residents of Glenwood's independent living facility. That's why a nurse refused the pleas of a Bakersfield Fire Department dispatcher to begin CPR on a Glenwood resident who collapsed Tuesday morning. The 87-year-old woman died. Reports identify her at Lorraine Bayless and confirm she did not have a do-not-resuscitate order. Her daughter told 17News she is satisfied with Glenwood's handling of the situation. This

I think it's something we all need to be aware of particularly those who have elderly parents who may be in an assisted living facility. Do you really want them to go into cardiac arrest and a nurse refuse to administer CPR? What if your parent was still a healthy person who just needed some assistance with daily activities and might live another 10 or 15 years? Would that make a difference? FWIW, 87 isn't old. I have a brother who is 80 and who still bikes and fishes and goes bowling and just about anything else he wants to do. I had an aunt who still drove at 94 and who still volu

Assisted living facilities are not hospices. They are places for functioning adults to live who require minimal assistance with activities of daily living. They are not nursing homes, hospices or even personal care homes. Personal care homes provide the least amount of assistance to a resident. Assisted living provides more, but not as much care as nursing homes do. Generally, once a person's ability to do much for themselves has declined, they are able to go to a nursing home which provides more care. My 105 year old aunt was in assisted living the last 2-3 years of her life. She li

I'm not a coffee drinker either but do love my tea. I know EXACTLY what you mean about keeping the glass filled. If a server sees me chomping on ice, they better get over to the table pronto with a tea pitcher and leave it sitting. I guess that's why I LOVE the barbecue place where we eat on Fridays. They keep the glasses full, give great service, serve great food and make it all around enjoyable experience. They also get a good tip (and I increase that around Christmas).

They're too busy speeding things up.

I'm limited to giving one plus. This deserves 1000 of them!

People who really want to commit suicide WILL find a way. Women generally will not use a gun. Too messy.

Since many states don't recognize the DNR in a pre-hospital or non-hospital setting, even with one, CPR could be performed. My mom had a DNR. Always. Well, I say always, after she had been shocked back to life, she had one. She said never EVER again did she want to go through that. But you're right. If it's a 50 year old man sitting at the table in a restaurant, hell yes, try to save his life. I still cannot believe the nurse REFUSED to get someone else to do this and refused to do it herself. I can't imagine standing by and watching an otherwise healthy person die because my

Yes, he should be reported. I'm shocked that if he has someone doing his payroll that they let it slip by. If he does his own payroll, I understand how he might get away with it. It doesn't take an attorney to sue for that. Just one call, that's all to the DOL and they will take care of it.

The nurse REFUSED to try to get someone else to help. REFUSED. Usually it's the caller who is pleading with the 911 operator to do something. In this case, it was the 911 operator pleading with the caller. But she wasn't. She was in the assisted living section. That means she was an otherwise healthy adult who just happened to go into cardiac arrest in the wrong place. Too bad she wasn't at a mall.

Still think incestuous marriages would be a good idea?

Obviously you have never been the victim of or the parent of a victim of incest.

There was no report of a DNR, just "policy" that no employee of the facility performed CPR. On anyone. Ever. The nurse would not even run out into the street to get a passerby or ask another person in the facility to do it. She flat refused to do anything to save this woman's life. It was assisted living, so a DNR likely was not in effect.

Human life trumps policy every day of the week. Screw policy.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/03/17167379-nurse-refuses-to-perform-cpr-despite-911-dispatchers-plea?lite An elderly woman being cared for at a California retirement facility died following the refusal of a nurse at the facility to perform CPR on the woman after she collapsed, authorities said. When Lorraine Bayless, an 87-year-old resident of Glenwood Gardens, Bakersfield, collapsed at the facility around 11 a.m. Tuesday, a staff member called 911 but refused to give the woman CPR, according to a recording of the call. In refusing the 911 dispatcher's insistence that she perfor

If my car is stolen this could be great. Otherwise, my car isn't going to be somewhere without me and therefore it won't matter one iota that the police know I am there or not. If you're doing something you shouldn't be, you might have a problem with anyone, police or your spouse, knowing that you're there. If you're not doing anything wrong, it shouldn't matter.

Actually, I've known a number of people who were gay and married a heterosexual partner. Why? Many reasons. One of which was love. They truly loved each other, even though the guy wasn't sexually attracted to his wife and she really wasn't attracted to him. They WERE married and did love each other. I've known a number of bisexual people as well who left long term marriages when they realized they really preferred their own gender over the gender of their mate. And yes, you might have an attraction to a gay person if that person was the opposite sex as you. The medical decision is

Yep. A few years back there was a rash of pedestrian hit and runs in and around Atlanta. A deer ran out and hit our truck on our way home from Home Depot. Just to make sure that nobody EVER thought we had hit a person, we called the police to write it up even though the damage wasn't enough to turn in to the insurance company. We figured that was better insurance against anyone reporting the vehicle with front end damage and it causing us problems. Turned out, there was a pedestrian hit that night in Atlanta and it was a small truck that hit them. I'm not going to be on the road wit

I guess I now know which companies I want to stop dealing with.

I read an interesting book a few months ago. Seems a lot of the meds that we take for granted now for things like ED and overactive bladder are not needed as there are better, more effective and less costly methods of treating the problem. The marketing is what makes them big selling items (and big ticket items as well). Also, like you pointed out, some of them were actually being developed for other conditions and had, as you said "stiff" side effects.

When I was on hormone patches, my co-pay was actually more than I could pay for it out of pocket. It wasn't a lot of difference, less than $5, but I HAD to pay the co-pay regardless of what the cost was as it was a certain tier. That was crazy!! I started paying for it out of pocket. To the OP: if you're a member of Greystone Power, join their Co-op Connections. You might find the prescription is less with that.

Better yet, post a chart. FWIW, I knew where you were talking about the whole time.

Nope, don't need that either. Just got back from Home Depot. Got five boxes and two rolls of tape for under $10. And that cashier needs an attitude adjustment. If I'm at the self-checkout lane and have scanned one box and you come up to me and say "I'll ring those up. How many do you have?" you can at least look to see how many I've already scanned and not charge me for those again.

When would I pack? Already doing that, so not waiting to put this one up for sale. We're moving from here as soon as we close on the other one even if we don't have everything there yet. No mortgage payments as this house is paid for and the other one will be as well. That's why we will have $175 left over. The only duplicates we will have will be insurance, utilities and taxes (God please don't let us still own this house come October). Obviously, utilities will be a lot less in this house once we move out but we know the water/sewer bill there will be more than we're paying here so