...or so it would seem. Last Friday, had the Visiting Nurse Service/Partners in Care people in to see my father and start an assessment. We're now waiting on the written response and the next meeting. But the signals are good. For at least two years now I've been screaming for case management -- maybe it was just my own incompetence that kept me from finding a case manager -- but it turns out that's part of the program, so it looks like I'm going to get my wish. Beyond that, good rapport all around. I'm continually struck by the quality of the VNS personnel. More broadly, I'm struck by how much more human and well rounded are the people that I meet in the helping professions... as opposed to, say, my many corporate friends. Yes, it's dangerous to speak in generalities, but at the same time I can't help thinking that there's something in the corporate environment that brings out weakness and selfishness and general unreliability -- and there's something in caregiving that does the opposite. Or maybe I've just been lucky on the one hand and unlucky on the other -- thankfully haven't met too many nightmare caregivers yet. So, best to avoid conclusions for now. But will leave the question hanging -- is there something in the business environment that makes people less than their best?
To be continued... or dropped... as seems most appropriate...
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