An Attorney’s Personal Journey – Jenny’s Story

Jenny: [00:00:03] He was diagnosed with a cancer that involved the lymph node here near the ear. And so he had gone to UC Irvine for a procedure to do some drainage. He was transferred to a rehab facility here in Long Beach, and at the time he moved to rehab, we knew that he possibly was not going to be getting better. And he kept saying to me, ‘Jenny, Jenny, I want to go home. I want to go home.’ And he was in this facility, and I couldn’t work with the nurses or the doctors because I was just a regular person. I know I’m an attorney, but I couldn’t get them to pay attention and respond to his request to go home. And so, I sat here in my office and I said, ‘well, what do I do?’ So, I called Machelle. And so that was about ten in the morning, I would say, on a Tuesday. By that afternoon, she and I were at the rehab. And because she has a nursing background and she’s a geriatric care manager, she was able to go right up to the front desk and tag me around like I was a little child and say ‘here.’ And we went to the nurse, and we found the charge nurse, and we said, we would like to check him out today and he would like to go home. So, by that afternoon he would be released.