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Thank you for an excellent response and info provided. When my Dad was hospitalized in Jan. of this year we furnished the hospital with POA papers and health proxy. My Dad has Alzheimers and deemed that he could not make his own decision. When my brother or I would visit which was almost everyday we would get the run around from the case manager and staff, they said they lost the POA papers and health proxy even though we were their when it was put electronically into the computer and into Dad's file. I happened to be on the phone with Dad when a doctor came in and told HIM he was being discharged to a nursing home. My brother and I were NOT contacted. Thank God I was on the phone, this was early morning and I told the doctor there is NO way you are discharging him, we have a place for him, we had to file an appeal with medicare for him to stay an extra day. Most health care workers do not understand the HIPPA rules and add undue stress and concern to families and loved ones.

It's Alive

Boy he's hot, but his temperature is normal

Holy Foley When the Lasix is too much for the bag.

1. Have great patience 2. Take care of yourself, or you won't be good for anyone else. 3.If you think a doctor is in error, say so. 4.Always double check medications. 5. Treat all patients with respect.

NYS finally passed the bill for better staff to patient ratio !!!!!!!

a different patient in the bed.

Some doctors still prescibing by phone, this worries me:( Also there is a very long lists of medications that are contradicted with lindane. Please see link from FDA: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/lindane/default.htm Also regarding lindane lotion http://www.lindane.com/pdf/EPA-Revised_Assessment-2002-07-31.pdf

Hello All I wanted to add this link here for anyone with MS, with a family member or friend with MS, and also good for all health proffessionals to know. http://www.msaa.com/ The MS association is the most wonderul, supportive one in the US. They have a toll free number you can call to ask questions, or just to talk for reassurance. They also will send out adaptive equipment for free on loan. They sent me cooling equipment (vest, writst bands etc) and also grab bar for bathroom and sliding shower seat. They also asssist people with no or limited insurance to get an MRI. mjckinkc-glad you mentioned the better lyme test. On an MS site I'm a member of this is brought up pretty often. Some people have had regular lyme test that was negative only to find later that they had lyme all along and were being treated for MS.

asoldierswife05 I very much understand how you are feeling. The neuro should have ordered an MRI of both head and spine. I was dxed in 2004 with relapsing/remmitting MS after many years of symptoms. Was told by two neuros I needed antidepressants before this. My EMG and Visual evoked came out normal, but did have a few lesions, with subsequent MRI's lesion load increased as with symptoms then diagnosed. I hope you do not have MS, but a suggestion would be to call your local MS society and ask for the name of a good neuro who specializes in MS. You should have a complete workup including MRI's, blood work to rule out Lyme, etc, and possibly a Lumbar puncture. It took me a year to get the courage for the lumbar, I'm such a chicken, it came out neg. for bands but had elevated protein. Many of us with MS have gone though years of being blown off by doctors, especially woman, sadly. Its awful having symptoms and being handed a script when you know the med isn't going to help. So please get the complete work up, get a different neuro. I too like the previous poster take Low Dose Naltrexone, personal choice as my body is very sensitive to meds and I know I couldn't handle the shots. Please try and stay positive, IF you do have MS it is not the end of the world, allthough at times it feels like it. Take care and I wish you the best.

So glad the dangers of lindane was posted here!!!! Here's another site with good info. http://mysite.verizon.net/vze444wi/id3.html

Thanks for posting those two excellent websites, very good info. :) In addition to writing letters of support to Assemblyman Weisenburg, was hoping all nurses would consider writing to the ANA, cause there is strength in numbers.

it passed through the health commitee and will be in the codes and rules commitee's in the assembly and senate. As most of you must be aware Lindane is highly toxic, the FDA blackboxed it, but its still being used on children and the elderly. Hoping as many nurses in NY state as possible will write letters of support for this bill addressed to Assemblyman Weisenburg. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A4162