A Home Health company agreed to temporarily send a lady to help me shower.
"I will be
at your house at 2 pm." She called saying.
She showed up at around 1:30 -which is within the window of
time one can reasonably expect. But what was not reasonable is the hurry that
the poor woman was acting with. And even worse, putting us on.
"Mrs. Ross
is the 7th person I have bathed today, and I still have two more to do. From
here, I have to drive back to Tampa and I already have been to…" And she
named cities that I don't even remember.
All I remember is the rush Dan and I experienced…I was trembling from head to toe, Dan was livid.
We were pressed by her haste to the point that I told her to only wash the most
important parts: head, underarms, private parts, and feet. We told her to just dry me from the waist up and put my
shirt on because my husband has a hard time putting my shirt on but that he would dry my legs and put
on my panties and pants. 40 minutes
later she was gone.
This episode has left me reflecting on a couple of things: 1.
- I wonder if the help provided by a home health aid of that type is worth the
stress it causes. 2. - How well rinsed a disabled person gets when bathed in
such a hurry? Personally, I think leaving soap in some parts of the body could
cause irritations.
