Evening Pedes, I post this with a heavy heart. My Father-in-law passed tonight. He's been in the hospital for 6 weeks. Tested positive for covid when he went in. He's been managing several high risk conditions for many year's, so we knew this was gonna be a tough fight for him. Ultimately he lost, which we all will someday.

The anger though is why I'm sharing. Hopefully knowing how some hospitals are behaving will help others be prepared to fight the bullcrap our hospital threw at us.

• Father in law was allowed no visitors He spent the last 6 weeks alone. He died alone. Not because no one cared, but because they wouldn't let us in, on threat of tresspassing.
• Updates were incredibly difficult to get My wife spent hours calling, being put on hold, ignored, and hung up on EACH and EVERY time she called to get updated.
• it was very difficult to get anything to him. My father in law shares a phone with my mother in law, so when he was put in a room with a broken land line, we tried to get him a burner phone and a tablet. It took days to get either item to him, then the nurses were unable/unwilling to help him set it up, and we couldn't come in to help.
• Bonus - Room phone was not fixed at any point while he was there. (ABOUT 6 WEEKS).

Edit: location: in/near Houston, TX TLDR - IF SOMEONE YOU LOVE ENDS UP IN THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW, EXPECT TO FIGHT.

FIGHT FOR INFO, FIGHT TO GET THEM WHAT THEY NEED, FIGHT SO THEY KNOW THEY'RE NOT ALONE.

My wife is about to be 41 weeks pregnant.

We are in Houston Texas.

My wifes parents tested positive for the Rona today.

My wife will be tested tomorrow.

If she tests positive, she will have to deliver alone.

Our newborn will be immediately taken away from her.

She will not get to see or hold the baby until they are both discharged. (Usually 1 to 3 days later).

When asked if they do this for any other illness, we got nothing but dead air. (Wife is asymptomatic, if she even has the crap)

When asked what benefit a 3 day delay in exposure would have for the newborn, again, we got dead air.

They don't want you asking questions.

Edit to add, Stuck using hospital. Kid won't come out on his own, is getting big enough to be dangerous for momma. Wednesday will be a C-Section.

UPDATE: Scheduled for C-section later today.

Our doctor interveened on our behalf, and Wife will not be seperated from the baby.

I wll be staying home with oldest.

Doctor has promised to personally check in every few hours during recovery to ensure the hospital doesn't give my wife undue grief.

While we are getting taken care of, the Hospital's default policy is still to screw with families unnecessarily.

Update 2: mom did not test posiitive for covid, so the planned battle did not happen. Newest pede is healthy and so is momma.

I still plan to bring as much attention to this BS policy as I can. New parents have enough to deal with.

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