Personal Narrative: My Trip To A Nursing Home

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One of Bob’s last hospital visits my brother told me that he wanted to go to a nursing home, because then at least he would be fed three meals a day, and be taken care of like he should be. Then Renee started ranting and trying to insist that she did feed my brother 3 meals a day which we know not to be the truth.
At this time she even admitted to my niece Rhonda Grayling that her father’s care was getting to be too much for her, and that is when Rhonda told her take him to the VA to help out with his care.
In the last days of my brother’s life we all requested for my brother to be taken to St Francis Hospital in Tulsa or the Veteran’s hospital in Muskogee to get a second opinion regarding his medical status because we were being told that he was suffering from pneumonia with fluid on the lungs which in turn was causing increased CHF, bed sores on his buttocks his heals his legs that had not been taken care of properly in the hospital and at home, and felt that his life could have been prolonged if additional medical attention were to be given. It is my understanding that my niece
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My brother did not have the right state of mind due to his medical prognosis and his medications to know what she was actually doing, and when he was told to sign something he never knew what it was, and when he did question anything Renee would tell him sign it or else she would no longer take care of him and she would put him in a nursing home. Another thing that really disturbed me was when I heard that my brother was brain washed to believe that his sons no longer loved him, and if they were taking care of him they would have put him in a nursing home just like their mother. This is a false statement because I had numerous conversations on how they wanted to take care of their dad but Renee would not allow

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