I'm in a nursing home that for some reason keeps running out of my pain medication and my anxiety medication. I then have to wait for a couple days to get them refilled. So, I go through pain, bad anxiety and withdrawals from waiting. My body can't keep going through this as my blood pressure goes sky high among other things! Thank you in advance!
Make sure your notes on your cell phone, tablet, and/or laptop are password protected and I'd have a backup on a USB thumb drive.
Please keep us updated. What you are going through is terrible.
Call your Administrator.
Tell her you are currently researching how to call in an ombudsman about your decubitus ulcer and the withholding of your medications.
Tell her that you are researching who in your state oversees the licensing of any Medicare/Medicaid patients, and calling Medicare/Medicaid it self to see how to proceed with getting their treatment and licensure examined. Tell her you are keeping careful and meticulous notes (and whatever else you do, DO THAT) about missed meds, and negligence in your care leading to skin breakdown.
DO KNOW that facilities can literally lose their license to practice or be in business or have themselves put on probation for complaints such as yours.
Call APS and report them as well.
KEEP THOSE CAREFUL NOTES; that is crucial. And keep them hidden, and don't speak to others about them.
I like it. I've taken pictures of my catheter being so full it looks like a pillow too. One of the lpns deleted the pictures on my phone. Luckily she didn't empty the garbage. I will do exactly what you explained! I'm just new to this stuff as I'm pretty young and am here because of an operation gone wrong and left me a paraplegic. Thank you so much for your reply!
What state are you in?
"The law provides that for the treatment of acute pain, a prescription for an opioid drug listed as a Schedule II controlled substance in s. 893.03 or 21 U.S.C. s. 812 may not exceed a 3-day supply, except that up to a 7-day supply may be prescribed if certain conditions are met. The “3-day” and “7-day” applies to the supply of the opioid drug listed as a Schedule II controlled substance, not the number of days after the prescription is written for which it is still valid."
source: https://flhealthsource.gov/FloridaTakeControl/faqs
The Ombudsman may also help.
Medicare does have a website and complaints can be registered.