Virgil
Two Weeks Home
by , 05-01-2008 at 11:10 PM (2287 Views)
Hey i haven't updated you on Mom in a while. Sorry about that. It's been two weeks since she got discharged from rehab place. In a way her stay there was pleasant. She really got to interact with a lot of people. Mom tends to like to stay to herself. And at home she doesn't see many people other than family. But at rehab she made friends with the other patients and the staff. And she loved playing bingo. She had never played before, but she would so over joyed when the activities person came around. The activities person would give the winner of the games 50 cents as a winning for each game. It's just a token amount. The money would get donated, and I even gave the activities a few dollars donation, especially after I kept seeing my mother win so often. She came home with 15 dollars or so of bingo winnings.She was proud of it.
When she got out she was kind of wobbly on her feet without a walker or crutches. But she was pretty good with them. They made one big mistake at rehab. My mother has a thyroid probem which is controled with medication. She has taken 125mcg of synthroid for the several years. When she went into the rehab I checked over her meds and they were giving her two synthroid pills, one 100mcg and one 25mcg. I asked why did they do it this way, and they said it was easier for them. Ok. But at discharge they only listed her synthroid at 25mcg. I pointed it out but that's what was in their records. Somewhere along the line they screwed up her dosage. I bet it was when she was in and out of the hospital for the blood clot. The more you transfer the more likely they are to make a mistake.
So it must have been a couple of weeks she was getting the wrong dosage. She seemed ok at the time. It takes a little time for one to feel the lack of the medication. I figured I would get her to her doctor as soon as possible. Unfortunately I couldn't get an appointment right away and had to wait a whole week. During that week she finally started feeling the lack of thyroid function, run down, aches and pains, and severe chills. She's now had the correct dosage for a week and she seems to be better each day.
Tuesday was also the orthopedist visit. He was very satisfied with her progress. He showed me the x-ray and you could see the titanium artificial hip. The cut the top of the bone off, bore out the leg bone and insert a spike into it with that has the ball part of the hip on top. My mother was fascinated looking at and she was trying to feel it under her flesh.
She says she's not doing any gardening but I've already caught her doing stuff, like taking out seeds and putting some in potted plants. I can't stop her. She incorrigible.
Anyway that's it. I wish I could find a way for her to interact with more people. Her personality came out at the rehab place. It was very good for her.
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