Positioning my body is a fundamentally important part of my care. Regular and correct positioning significantly reduces the risk of decubiti, pain and collection as well as secretion build-up in the respiratory tract.
Especially at night, I insist that you set an alarm clock and reliably make sure that I am moved to the other side at least every 100 minutes. Don't tell me stories like I was sleeping so peacefully and that's why you didn't want to wake me up. Because that always ends the same. I wake up with pain in my backbone (the two protruding bones above the coccyx in the hip area, the "humps"), neck and ear. You can tell I'm in pain because I sweat, especially on the palms of my hands. I have a lot of mucus and fight with it all day. I have trouble breathing. I get decubiti and sores. For example, like the one I have on my ear right now, because unfortunately three nurses in a row fell asleep on duty, didn't put me in bed and, on top of that, didn't hear my alarms, which, according to the ventilator's log, numbered well over 100, for hours. A total outrage, but apparently normal. This is the third nursing service where this has happened to me.
No, my hands are certainly not too warm, as many a nurse has tried to convince me. What is this about nurses thinking they know how I feel better than I do? If my palms are sweating, then I have simply been positioned incorrectly or not at all for too long. It's almost sad that this happens so often that I even found out about the connection with the palms.
