Have I mentioned before that no one Know-it-all like? It was a rhetorical question. Of course I've mentioned it before. Several times, to be precise.
But if that is the case, and you are still reading, what reason would I have to change now? Quite apart from the fact that people don't change. Maybe one or the other sincere person tries. But I don't believe in real change. About as little as I believe in fate. All humbug. Or zodiac signs. Rubbish. And homeopathy first of all, rubbish. Winky-winky.
What's on my mind again today that I'm bringing up one of these? Well, a topic that I had actually mentally checked off for myself. Filed away, because they didn't know what they were doing. But it all comes back to me. I told you so.
Let's get into the story. It is Summer. A dream of a weather. Just nine months ago. With the Change of care service the question quickly arises whether we could possibly change the shift change, whether I would agree to it.
The current arrangement - 8 a.m. in the morning and consequently 8 p.m. in the evening - is proving to be damn difficult. Because you have to leave pretty early. Dude, tell that to someone who has to start early in the morning at 6 a.m. for intensive care, not in the chilled-out out-of-hospital intensive care at home, but in hospital. Maybe that will open your eyes.
I have to admit that it is still a mystery to me why my carers don't live in Munich, the surrounding area or in the Munich outback. Everyone comes from somewhere else. 120 km northwest of Munich, sure, you can do that. Or 100 km east, if you have nothing else to do, why not?
I find it frightening that at that time I was have not found a care providerwhere not every carer travels an average of almost 100 km - each way - to come to me. But that's something else entirely. However, it is also very exciting when you think about the nursing shortage in Germany.
Whether the distances were the reason why the shift change could only take place regularly, sometimes several hours late, remains to be seen. Whether it is normal that the night service should not take over some tasks in such a case, but that the patient has to wait for two or three hours, is simply left open.
But one thing is clear to me. If you start work at eight, I know that you have to be at the handover at half past. And I'll give you my word of honour that if you arrive in Grünwald shortly after seven, it's still dead even at the grammar school. But if you're on a tight schedule, just to get here at eight o'clock without rush-hour traffic, forget it. It doesn't work like that here any more than it does in the rest of the country. Nevertheless, there was certainly some justified motivation to move the shifts back two hours. I would boldly say that everyone was happy with it. Some were able to sleep two hours longer at home and others did the same here with me.
Incidentally, one cannot claim - even in retrospect from today's perspective - that the general punctuality has improved significantly since then.
Change of scene. Half a year later. Not everyone is really happy with the start of work. The whole situation is triggered by the question of a single mini-jobber who does two or three services for me. In our Whatsapp group it is the topic par excellence. No one is interested in the fact that I've been fighting bleeding gums for 24 hours because of "I told you, it's too tight and it hurts". A vote in the group follows, after which 9 o'clock is set as the shift change from now on. What nonsense, if you ask me. But nobody asks me. And my opinion is also unwanted, as it turns out....
