hospice

Deja vu all over again. New team, same questions. Mom's sister Auntie L was here for the meeting and I put her next to the hospice social worker, H. I chose to stand as far away from her as possible because her high-pitched, yet soft "compassionate" voice, grated, and she is crazy as a loon.

At least, that was the consensus after the team left. Auntie L could barely contain herself. She didn't like H rubbing her back and fixated on H's hula hand gestures. I didn't think the gesticulating was particularly phony, but at times it did look as if she was interpreting her own words into sign language.

Sister A tried to tune H out, as is her wont. She did mention that maybe H was sent to us so we could let off steam by mocking her. We don't have Sis C's opinion yet, but when asked, mom didn't have a problem with her. She didn't object, however, to my characterization of H as a harmless kook.

Nurse D was just fine and we thought that J, who was "shadowing" H, should instead follow Nurse D.

While we are grateful for all the services that hospice affords us, we think they should screen their employees more carefully. There appear to be a few people attracted to hospice work for the wrong reasons.