What’s To Become Of Me As I Age? (Part 3)
Home Medical Alert, Medical Alert Bracelet, Independent Living May 28th, 2008EMERGENCY ROOM
Whether you take a family member or are assisted by your nurse, everyone seems to eventually enter the emergency room. Don’t be nervous. It’s just a big room with many rooms and everyone needs attention right then. There’s an administrator at the front for the inevitable paperwork, so bring your Medical cards for certain, and bring your checkbook, and speak up when you need to.
The administration will go much easier if you have your information and proof of insurance right in your wallet. So, put it there now, so you’ll never have to think if you have it, because in an emergency, it’s hard enough to keep your head on straight, let alone the details of business.
Okay, once in emergency, you go to administration. They say wait. It is excruciating. If you know your family member is dying, make a huge stink. Don’t be shy and think, they’ll get to your loved one. Be heard. The hospitals are shorthanded. Get what you need and do what you need to do, to get to get what you need, but only if it is a true emergency.
So, the administrator and their nurse finally call you. If the emergency is for your loved one, when you go into a room and they sometimes they ask you to leave. Do what you want, stay, go; that all depends on the type of person you are and the relationship you have with the person you brought in. You wait in the little space, which may be a room, or may be a curtain drawn closed, but it is your space. The Doctor shows and the assessment begins.