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daddysgirl
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My father is in a nursing home after having a PEG tube inserted into his stomach. He is unable to swallow due to Parkinson's disease. Anything that goes into his mouth will go right into his lungs causing pneumonia. His doctor put him on 1800 calories a day. We have told his doctor many times that is not enough. He needs more calories. My dad tells us he is starving. He begs us for food and he cries so much. He hates being there also. We want him home, but his doctor said if we take him home he will no longer be his doctor for going "AMA" against medical advice. My dad is able to steal food from his neighbors, he steals it from the employees refridgerator, he gets it wherever he can. The nurses know it and they have told us, after we see it in his beard. This past weekend he came down with another bad case of pneumonia and his oxygen level was down to 90%. His doctor was not available over the weekend so an on-call doctor put him on antibiotics and he is doing better. My dads doctor said he is doing fine. After much urging from us, he raised my dads calories from 1800 to 2000 a day. He said "we don't want him to get fat". My father is 6'4" and used to be 210 lbs. He has lost 50 lbs in about 2 months time. My dad is being starved to the point of scrounging around for anything he can get his hands on. He has beds sores from not being turned on a regular basis also. He will lay in bed wet until it is 'time' for the nurses (cna's) to make their rounds. We are furious. Do we have any rights here? We are in California.
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