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southernyankeebelle

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3. Well it is easier said than done. We had a healthcare person to come. The insurance

Reply to Ecumenist (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 06:43 PM

Feb 2012

would pay only 2 visits a week. My mother-in-law needed to be bathe. My health isn't the best and I also had my granddaughter to take care of at the same time. You take the help when you can get it. Unless you can afford a nurse to come at your own expense. I sure couldn't. We made the best of it. I was greatful for the help. Maybe that is how she feels with the nurse 2.

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Two reactions on Komen reversal [View all] xfundy Feb 2012 OP

Can't you ask for another nurse like nurse 1? southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #1

Really...I wouldn't let the second one in my house for all the tea in China. Ecumenist Feb 2012 #2

Well it is easier said than done. We had a healthcare person to come. The insurance southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #3

I understand I am dealing with stage 4 cancer myself. I was lucky Ecumenist Feb 2012 #4

There are many good nurses. My mother-in-law had many good ones. southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #8

I remember a hospice nurse for my dad back around 2004 or so. Quantess Feb 2012 #5

Totally agree. Really that isn't why they are there. If a nurse said something I would cut her southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #7

She saw the navy portrait of my brother from the 1980s, Quantess Feb 2012 #9

Yep, my father-in-law, father, and husband were all lifers in the military and all were democrats. southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #11

They cannot send you someone based on their political affiliation obamanut2012 Feb 2012 #6

The truth is, Komen didn't reverse anything. EFerrari Feb 2012 #10