On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:28:46 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> 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.

40+ years ago I had a long stay and found the food to be excellent. 20
years later, for another but shorter stay, there had been a marked
deterioration in quality. Our Con govt had got rid of the in-house cooks
and contracted out to CANA, the airline food makers.