Update

Rick is no longer in the merry walker. He has fallen in it twice. The first time was the CNA’s fault. She was pushing him in it like a wheelchair and the seat broke and he fell. The second time, 062112, he was leaning over the front of it and his weight was too much for the walker and it tipped over. He fell and knocked out his right front tooth, root and all. I took him to the dentist, who said we have to wait until the gum heals up before we can do anything to fix it. So Rick is now snaggle – toothed. We have an app’t to get it fixed on 071212. 

The night shift is supposed to be getting Rick up before they leave to bath and dress him. It doesn’t seem to be working very well. Some mornings he is in the bed with a hospital gown on, sometimes with his clothes on, sometimes dry, sometimes wet. Most of the time I have to wash him again and redress him.

This morning when I went in, he was in the bed, lying on the sheet with a protector under him. He had a hospital gown on and a diaper. The diaper was dry but the hospital gown was wet. When I went back to the bed to see what was going on, the protector was laying on top of a wet spot. The problem being that it wasn’t covering the entire wet spot and Rick had been laying in it long enough to soak the hospital gown. It wasn’t that he had wet the bed after he was washed up. They put him back in the wet bed and he laid in it. Therefore I had to wash him again and dress him. 

It worked much better when day shift was getting him up. 

Today, he has a sore on his right arm on the inside of his elbow. I took a picture of it.