“This place reeks of urine,” said the son of one of my patients after coming from the waiting area in the physical therapy clinic I’ve been working at lately. Sadly, one of my patients earlier in the afternoon came in from a local nursing home with his sweatpants soaked from groin to tennis shoes in his own urine. It smelled up the place the rest of the afternoon. He was only 52 years old and had suffered from several strokes in the last 12 years. The strokes affected the right side of his body so he can’t walk without a walker, lay down on a bed or get up from a bed without help from another person. Unfortunately, he is also incontinent and must rely on someone else to change his depends or bath in urine like he did today. The nursing home that sent him to therapy is responsible for his basic needs and our clinic had no briefs or extra clothes to help this man.
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