My Wife got hospitalized 2 days after Thanksgiving and the hospital was so busy she layed on a ER gurney for 2 days before they found a room for her.She had been in the hospital a month earlier and was home recovering and she seemed to be getting better.Then She fell and I had to call the towns police and they sent the emergency squad to our house.
I had just had my left hip replaced 2 days before Thanksgiving and I was getting ready to go for a Drs. appointment when she fell in the bathroom.That's why I had to call the town to help us.I had thought and the EMT's also thought that all they had to do was help her up and then check her out but after they picked her up she couldn't stand on her feet reliably.They then recommended that she go to the Emergency room so my Daughter came home from work and went to the ER with her Mom.
The hospital had her in a ER room on a gurney with those hard mattress's for 2 full days and she kept telling them her back hurt.They finally found a room for her and after 2 days when I came to visit her that night they said she's "medically fit" to be sent home.The nurse sternly kept saying she has to leave by 6 oclock and tried to force me to sign a release order but I knew that she wasn't right that something was wrong so I wouldn't sign till I saw her get up to leave.When the orderly came to put her in a wheel chair to be taken down to the hospitals front door he asked her to stand up to get into the wheel chair and she couldn't stand up.I knew she couldn't stand up by herself and even with his help she couldn't do it.That's the condition she was in our house when she had fell and she never got any better initially at the hospital only worse.
The orderly refused to force her to get into the wheel chair because in his words he knew she wouldn't be able to walk from the WC to the car door outside the hospital.I asked for the name of the physical therapy people that cleared her to leave the hospital and the Drs name too.They wouldn't give me the PT people's names but they did tell me who the Dr was.
Finally the head nurse talked to the Dr and they kept her for an additional 5 days and then kicked her out to send her to a rehab.They did virtually nothing while she was there and I tried to get her into an acute care rehab but they turned her down after using up valuable rehab time while she was in this "do nothing" place.I then kept insisting on a Neurologist seeing her for a new opinion and that took another week but thankfully they sent her to a hospital in Jersey City that took MRI's of her brain,neck and the whole spine.That is where they found the evidence of a stroke that the initial hospital never found or said anything about.
In the JC hospital I was able to visit for about a week and spent Christmas with her and I was her water boy for about 4 days but then they stopped visitation because of Covid cases increasing which was worse on her because she can't reach for a cup of water and keeps dropping it when she does.Because of the visit restrictions she spent NewYears eve & day alone in the hospital which was hard for us both. This just keeps getting worse and worse because her condition keeps getting worse and I'm lost on what to do.
I could not think of a way to title this that wouldn't sound wrong to me so I just wrote what I wrote.Also I'm not used to any of this and I'm in territory I'm not used to. I've been praying and praying for her to start getting better but it hasn't happened yet.I won't give up on her I'm going to try every Dr or rehab that will help us.At this time she can't walk but has feeling in her legs and feet,she has trouble holding any cups or utensils so she can't feed herself and has amnesia of the last 30-40 years.There's the stroke evidence and some new fractures in her spine too.
This current rehab facility (different place than the 1st rehab)seems to have better PT techs but no way to help her remember anything. Also to top things off our heat went out and its 20 degrees outside or less and they had to order the draft inducing blower motor cause they don't have one in stock.Luckily the three electric heaters are keeping the house around 60 to 64 for the time being.If it drops below 10 I don't know what I'll do.
(sorry for the long post but I couldn't think of a way to make it smaller)
I had just had my left hip replaced 2 days before Thanksgiving and I was getting ready to go for a Drs. appointment when she fell in the bathroom.That's why I had to call the town to help us.I had thought and the EMT's also thought that all they had to do was help her up and then check her out but after they picked her up she couldn't stand on her feet reliably.They then recommended that she go to the Emergency room so my Daughter came home from work and went to the ER with her Mom.
The hospital had her in a ER room on a gurney with those hard mattress's for 2 full days and she kept telling them her back hurt.They finally found a room for her and after 2 days when I came to visit her that night they said she's "medically fit" to be sent home.The nurse sternly kept saying she has to leave by 6 oclock and tried to force me to sign a release order but I knew that she wasn't right that something was wrong so I wouldn't sign till I saw her get up to leave.When the orderly came to put her in a wheel chair to be taken down to the hospitals front door he asked her to stand up to get into the wheel chair and she couldn't stand up.I knew she couldn't stand up by herself and even with his help she couldn't do it.That's the condition she was in our house when she had fell and she never got any better initially at the hospital only worse.
The orderly refused to force her to get into the wheel chair because in his words he knew she wouldn't be able to walk from the WC to the car door outside the hospital.I asked for the name of the physical therapy people that cleared her to leave the hospital and the Drs name too.They wouldn't give me the PT people's names but they did tell me who the Dr was.
Finally the head nurse talked to the Dr and they kept her for an additional 5 days and then kicked her out to send her to a rehab.They did virtually nothing while she was there and I tried to get her into an acute care rehab but they turned her down after using up valuable rehab time while she was in this "do nothing" place.I then kept insisting on a Neurologist seeing her for a new opinion and that took another week but thankfully they sent her to a hospital in Jersey City that took MRI's of her brain,neck and the whole spine.That is where they found the evidence of a stroke that the initial hospital never found or said anything about.
In the JC hospital I was able to visit for about a week and spent Christmas with her and I was her water boy for about 4 days but then they stopped visitation because of Covid cases increasing which was worse on her because she can't reach for a cup of water and keeps dropping it when she does.Because of the visit restrictions she spent NewYears eve & day alone in the hospital which was hard for us both. This just keeps getting worse and worse because her condition keeps getting worse and I'm lost on what to do.
I could not think of a way to title this that wouldn't sound wrong to me so I just wrote what I wrote.Also I'm not used to any of this and I'm in territory I'm not used to. I've been praying and praying for her to start getting better but it hasn't happened yet.I won't give up on her I'm going to try every Dr or rehab that will help us.At this time she can't walk but has feeling in her legs and feet,she has trouble holding any cups or utensils so she can't feed herself and has amnesia of the last 30-40 years.There's the stroke evidence and some new fractures in her spine too.
This current rehab facility (different place than the 1st rehab)seems to have better PT techs but no way to help her remember anything. Also to top things off our heat went out and its 20 degrees outside or less and they had to order the draft inducing blower motor cause they don't have one in stock.Luckily the three electric heaters are keeping the house around 60 to 64 for the time being.If it drops below 10 I don't know what I'll do.
(sorry for the long post but I couldn't think of a way to make it smaller)
