Stripped of Dignity in the Hospital — Mom’s Experience

Entrance to Twin Cities Hospital in Templeton, California

This was written during the time I was caring for my mom and spending a lot of time sitting in the hospital by her bedside so that she could retain a bit of her dignity. Mom’s ailment was horrible back pain, for which she was heavily drugged. It remained undiagnosed for a week. They had to get her pain level down to X-Ray her. When they did, they found compression fractures. She only thing she…