The state of Swedish Health Care
HEALTH CARE:
The nurses are about to go on strike, they want decent wages. I do support them, but this time they're striking where it hurts. If they carry it through, a system already on its knees will collapse totally, which is the point I guess. They're shutting down A&E's, and surgery units, and orthopedic units.
Luckily, my Dad has already been operated on, at long last. They admitted him Weds morning, and he spent all of Thursday morning with an IV drip, waiting for a noon operation......at 5 he was told it was cancelled due to emergency operations (he's having the removed part of his skull replaced with a piece of plastic, apparently to be glued on! They can't put his real piece of skull in, because it's too old by now.....since they dropped him off the waiting list...their computerized waiting list, with an annual cost in the vicinity of the annual wage of an othropedic surgeon....now that's expensive software! Too bad it apparently doesn't work very well! Damn computerized systems, leading to no good....I mean, my HD broke the other day! Again! Dell sucks so much, because I KNOW I'm not an HD breaker, if I was mine wouldn't have lasted for almost 5 years, right? And computers are good, yeah, when they work. We're getting an electronic journal system, which everyone is soooo excited about. I seem to be the only one a bit wary because I can't see that one working any better than any of the other programs we run... They say it's the network being crap, but then again I don't see them replacing it, but blaming XP instead. So now Vista will make everything magically work. Mmmm right. At least I've had the point of Vista explained to me (as in why make another OS when they already have a working product)....the sysads at work say it's much more stable. SO I asked them if it takes up much more space on your computer, too....and yeeeeah of course..... Mmmm I love waiting for years for the damn thing to start up...
COMPUTERS
So anyway...computerized journals are meant to ensure safer care....my ass. System breakdown = no info on the patient whatever. It's bad enough when the till system won't work, or our printers lose their standard settings (every day), I'm not sure I want more programs until we make the present ones work!
DAD
Anyway, my Dad. No surgery Thurs, but a promise about surgery today at noon. Of course, at 4:30 he was still sitting in his bed, and no-one would tell him if there was a point in him staying at all.......
Then...at bloody 10 PM they finally roll him down to the OR! And when I phoned an hour or so ago, he was still being operated on. You see, the outer membrane protecting the brain might have grown into the skin, and have to be separated. I'm sure it's nothing dangerous, but it probably takes ages and ages. They reckoned he'd be down for 4-5 hours, not thinking this is a long time, since they're neurosurgeons and sometimes operate on patients for 24 hours! Blimey, all the things I don't know! But then again, I've never seen the inside of an OR in my job, and I'd probably panic if I did. I hade sore operations as a kid, and I'll never forget the sense of panic as they lowered that mask over my face. I can't even have laughing gas or anything, I just cannot hold that mask to my face! And considering you wake up in the same mood you went under in allegedly, waking up must've been very traumatic for me too. I remember having to get sedative shots and hallucinating like mad, just so they could put me to sleep. I mean, no way normal sedatives work through a panic! I've not been under general anaestethics as an adult, so I don't know how I'd react.
But I spoke to a nurse on his ward, having called the switchboard. If my mate wasn't out clubbing tonight, he's probably working, and it's not like they have enough to do, hahahaa! I didn't even ask for the direct number, forget that, when just for a change I don't have to wait for aaaages to get through. Then again, I can't even transfer a call to a colleague´s phone without losing the call, so everyone's glad I don't work the switchboard....
CHURCH (now THAT'S an odd heading for me!)
So, maybe hospital tomorrow, after Sollan's baby....is it christening or baptism in the Catholic Church? Anyway, it's a bit boring because it's not in Latin or anything. The ceremony is so short I'm sure no-one would mind anyway. I'd quite like it, in fact. Maybe I should ask for it, hahahah! Anyway, depending on if Dad is awake or not. And he'd better be - the staying under for days business is really terrible, and we could really do without it this time. Esp my Mum, who's really worried he'll be more brain damaged...even though they're not going to poke around in his brain at all. She's really thinking out all the worst case scenarios. Me, I'm sorta deluding myself he'll be totally like before the stroke because he'll look largely the same way.
Mmmm the plot? There might have been one? But then again, there might not.
I hope the kids are well behaved in church, including the auntie, who last time wore totally inappropriate clothing AND cursed in church! All the rest of us, non-catholics the bunch of us, were much better behaved :)
Thought for the night: Why are indie kids so much more in the way than goths with giant skirts and massive extensions? It's not like they take up that much more space, right?
Stop wibbling? Good idea...
The nurses are about to go on strike, they want decent wages. I do support them, but this time they're striking where it hurts. If they carry it through, a system already on its knees will collapse totally, which is the point I guess. They're shutting down A&E's, and surgery units, and orthopedic units.
Luckily, my Dad has already been operated on, at long last. They admitted him Weds morning, and he spent all of Thursday morning with an IV drip, waiting for a noon operation......at 5 he was told it was cancelled due to emergency operations (he's having the removed part of his skull replaced with a piece of plastic, apparently to be glued on! They can't put his real piece of skull in, because it's too old by now.....since they dropped him off the waiting list...their computerized waiting list, with an annual cost in the vicinity of the annual wage of an othropedic surgeon....now that's expensive software! Too bad it apparently doesn't work very well! Damn computerized systems, leading to no good....I mean, my HD broke the other day! Again! Dell sucks so much, because I KNOW I'm not an HD breaker, if I was mine wouldn't have lasted for almost 5 years, right? And computers are good, yeah, when they work. We're getting an electronic journal system, which everyone is soooo excited about. I seem to be the only one a bit wary because I can't see that one working any better than any of the other programs we run... They say it's the network being crap, but then again I don't see them replacing it, but blaming XP instead. So now Vista will make everything magically work. Mmmm right. At least I've had the point of Vista explained to me (as in why make another OS when they already have a working product)....the sysads at work say it's much more stable. SO I asked them if it takes up much more space on your computer, too....and yeeeeah of course..... Mmmm I love waiting for years for the damn thing to start up...
COMPUTERS
So anyway...computerized journals are meant to ensure safer care....my ass. System breakdown = no info on the patient whatever. It's bad enough when the till system won't work, or our printers lose their standard settings (every day), I'm not sure I want more programs until we make the present ones work!
DAD
Anyway, my Dad. No surgery Thurs, but a promise about surgery today at noon. Of course, at 4:30 he was still sitting in his bed, and no-one would tell him if there was a point in him staying at all.......
Then...at bloody 10 PM they finally roll him down to the OR! And when I phoned an hour or so ago, he was still being operated on. You see, the outer membrane protecting the brain might have grown into the skin, and have to be separated. I'm sure it's nothing dangerous, but it probably takes ages and ages. They reckoned he'd be down for 4-5 hours, not thinking this is a long time, since they're neurosurgeons and sometimes operate on patients for 24 hours! Blimey, all the things I don't know! But then again, I've never seen the inside of an OR in my job, and I'd probably panic if I did. I hade sore operations as a kid, and I'll never forget the sense of panic as they lowered that mask over my face. I can't even have laughing gas or anything, I just cannot hold that mask to my face! And considering you wake up in the same mood you went under in allegedly, waking up must've been very traumatic for me too. I remember having to get sedative shots and hallucinating like mad, just so they could put me to sleep. I mean, no way normal sedatives work through a panic! I've not been under general anaestethics as an adult, so I don't know how I'd react.
But I spoke to a nurse on his ward, having called the switchboard. If my mate wasn't out clubbing tonight, he's probably working, and it's not like they have enough to do, hahahaa! I didn't even ask for the direct number, forget that, when just for a change I don't have to wait for aaaages to get through. Then again, I can't even transfer a call to a colleague´s phone without losing the call, so everyone's glad I don't work the switchboard....
CHURCH (now THAT'S an odd heading for me!)
So, maybe hospital tomorrow, after Sollan's baby....is it christening or baptism in the Catholic Church? Anyway, it's a bit boring because it's not in Latin or anything. The ceremony is so short I'm sure no-one would mind anyway. I'd quite like it, in fact. Maybe I should ask for it, hahahah! Anyway, depending on if Dad is awake or not. And he'd better be - the staying under for days business is really terrible, and we could really do without it this time. Esp my Mum, who's really worried he'll be more brain damaged...even though they're not going to poke around in his brain at all. She's really thinking out all the worst case scenarios. Me, I'm sorta deluding myself he'll be totally like before the stroke because he'll look largely the same way.
Mmmm the plot? There might have been one? But then again, there might not.
I hope the kids are well behaved in church, including the auntie, who last time wore totally inappropriate clothing AND cursed in church! All the rest of us, non-catholics the bunch of us, were much better behaved :)
Thought for the night: Why are indie kids so much more in the way than goths with giant skirts and massive extensions? It's not like they take up that much more space, right?
Stop wibbling? Good idea...