After 6 days at Woodbine, he ended up in the ER at the hospital. He not only had a urinary tract infection, severe bedsores on his buttocks and *******, and his nitro patch had not been changed for four days (it's to be placed on in the a.m. and removed in the p.m.).
Dad entered Woodbine needing only 25% assistance to walk, go to the bathroom, etc. We expected him to get rehab there. By the fifth day he was in the place, he was practically comatose and falling out of his wheelchair. Someone of our family was with him every day. I was there most days, usually around 3 or 4 p.m. and he was often not even dressed. The staff told me that he'd been up early and had already gotten back in nightgown for bed, even though he didn't have dinner.
When the ER staff looked over my dad, they were shocked at the bedsores. The UTI could have happened anywhere (however, the filth from not cleaning my dad that caused the bedsores could have also caused the UTI problem). I found out from several people at the hospital that, as one put it, "I would not take my dog to Woodbine."
