My sister has been on various PIC line administered medications to attempt to kill MRSA. She was…read moreadmitted by Kaiser in Fontana. Her right leg below the knee and the remaining great toe were removed. She was having hallucinations, incredible confusion, and somewhat combative responses. Over the past 12 months, she has had a PIC line 6 times, obviously not killing the MRSA, hence the amputations. She continued to get worse the longer she was on this latest round. I kept saying the anabiotics seem to cause some actions not at all like her and she's kept saying her stomach hurt.
So, Kaiser does a CT that says mile Alzheimer's, short term memory loss, but puts her on a med to treat schizophrenia, never notifying any family members, or did they just tell my psycho sister with short term memory loss. Like we are talking 42 phone calls, counted them, asking where she was how did she get there and why? 42 in 3 hours, but Kaiser ditches her, after only 2 rounds of physical therapy. We were told that she can't live alone again.
She gets transferred to the Apple Valler Acute Care Center. They ask me if she had any mental issues. I said OCD and Bi-Polar. They ask about the schizophrenia. Mom & I were shocked & said never. I asked why. She said well the other evening, she saw puppies coming out of the walls. Last night, she was asking them why they couldn't see the blood running down the walls, and BHO & FJB gave her a bath, she said it was nothing sexual, but she knew it really happened.
I was in shock, went in to see her and she went entirely ballistic, however she knows I signed the transfer paperwork. She looks at me and asks me to tell her the truth, did she have some sort of psychotiic breakdown because she thinks she is going insane, and she is terrified. Shortly thereafter, like Linda Blair in the Exocist, head spinning & green stuff coming out. She was vile. We had to leave as she kept trying to stand up.
It is important to note, that She has not walked 26 days. The "Care Center" gave her 4 sessions of PT. All she can do is get to a standing position from the bed with a walker. She cannot even pivot, much less do a safe transfer. They have made her use a bed pan because she falls.
I went home that night and Googled the antibiotic Vancomycin induced psychosis. It states that it can rarely cause neurotoxic effects including hallucinations, confusion and acute psychosis. Most commonly occurring in patients in kidney failure, where she is at stage 3. I called and asked them not to give her anymore, call the doctor. Mind you, they are contracted with Kaiser and have a Kaiser doctor assigned to them. They tell me they can't do this, the only way is to transfer her to St. Mary's in Apple Valley and they would transfer her to Kaiser in Fontana. Mom gets there and they have checked her into the ER. They take her back and do bloodwork, their diagnosis is that she had mild short term memory loss & get with her primary care doctor, and arranged for transport.
I was flying up the Cajon Pass when I get a call from AMR. They were dispatching a transport call from St. Mary's to her home. Kaiser is supposed to provide a wheelchair & walker and take care of safety features. She is a retired 37-year Kaiser employee. She has nothing.
The plan was to drop, literally drop her off at her home. I refuse the transfer & doing 85-90 mph, I fly into the ER after enough security checks I thought a body cavity check was needed.
I had called Apple Valley Acute "Care Center" and ask if they have a transfer order. She innocently answered, "well, I do have a note not to accept her back at all tonight and tomorrow morning, I don't know why."
I wonder why Kaiser and the "Care Center" don't want her, she's acting psychotic. Why the HELL do they not consider the source, when I ask them to please contact a doctor, she is having a rare but ENTIRELY possible psychotic reaction to her antibiotics... St. Mary's said she was safe to be released. Did I mention she has no prosthetic leg. She just had the stitches removed.
Apparently, when they were told that we refused to accept her at home due to that not being a safe transfer. We asked for her to be sent to Kaiser.
The "Care Center" apparently were forced to take her back. Heck, they sent everything she had with her and had checked her out. They had no intention of taking her back.
I called the "Care CENTER" this morning. All of the staff were in a meeting, but they would call me back. I had an appointment I had to go to, so I said ok. After 4 hours... I thought maybe they would have been setting up things with Kaiser, etc. I call, nope, can't even get with anyone in upper management.
I have taken the information to contact the state board. I will file this with Kaiser. I will post this everywhere I can. I called her Primary Care doctor just before 5 last evening. I was told someone on her "Care Team" would reach out by end of day today, which is in 3 minutes..
