On 2021-04-30 12:19 p.m., Sheldon Martin wrote:
> Being in rehab I missed my second Phizer vaccine appointment, however
> fortunately the rehab arranged for my second vaccine at the rehab, a
> Walgreen tech arrived to give me the shot. I experienced no side
> effects. Walgreens gave me a card for each shot.
> This is the Rehab Center:
> https://greenemeadows.com/
Good to hear you got your second shot.
> Not a bad facility, I received good care... just can't recommend the
> food, most was inedible. I didn't have much appetite anyway so only
> ate about half the items they served... the coffee was disgusting,
> weak and arrived cold. They served a lot of turkey patties, not
> something I would eat. I pretty much lived on French toast and cole
> slaw (not bad). The beverage with each meal was Kool Aid. Veggies
> were canned; green beans or niblets. I was able to ask for cottage
> cheese with a side of canned fruit (pineapple chunks and manderin
> oranges. We were weighed every day, I dropped ten pounds there.
I had pretty bad food when I was in the hospital last August, and I
missed a lot of meals. The first day I arrived there around 4 pm was
checked out in the ER and was admitted, but no bed available in cardiac
ward so I stayed in the ER. Being admitted so late, I missed supper.
Due to a procedure they were going to do I missed breakfast and lunch.
They moved me up to cardiac ICU around 4 pm and when dinners came there
was none for me. The nurse found me some sandwiches.
Meals were typically a tiny portion of meat and a pile of vegetables.
One day it was broccoli and cauliflower and another day it was a big
pile of corn. Breakfast was a small scoop of dry industrial scrambled
eggs and one piece of dry, cold toast. They would give me a cup of
juice and a cup of tepid water with a teabag or instant coffee. The
water was so far from hot that you could leave the bag in it for 5
minutes and it barely changed the colour of the water.
I missed a few more meals because they were hoping to something that
involved knocking me out. It got to the point that I didn't mind
missing meals because they were so small and so horrible I was not
missing much. Between the lack of food, the missed meals and being
pumped full od diuretics, I dropped more than 20 pounds over the 6 days
I was there.
> My main complaint was that it was very noisy, everyone had their TV on
> different stations and very loud... I kept my door closed.
My room was pretty quiet. I had a nice big room to myself. It was
strange. I had had a Covid test three days before I went to the hospital
and the day before I went i got the results... negative. They still put
me into isolation because I had had symptoms that led to me getting the
test.
Noise was more of a problem when I had been in ICU after bypass surgery.
The nurses used to hang out in the hall in front of my room at shift
change. The food was much better there but the place was dismal and in
spite of being heavily medicated I hardly slept a wink in 11 days.