Alexx is home
Jan. 29th, 2020 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellAlexx got home around dinnertime last night. M. fed him some bacon--not an evil carb--and he went to bed, hopefully to get lots of sleep, which did not happen in the hospital.
I am now adamantly opposed tot he way patients are pressured into going to rehab centers. The pressure is couched in terms of recommendation, given promises of additional physical therapy hours (which do not get fulfilled), and assurances that the patient will be delivered home in an ambulance. Be aware: rehab centers offer profit for other companies.
As soon as the patient rejects the rehab center, the hospital can't seem to get rid of him fast enough. The hospital caseworker wouldn't give us any solid date or time for Alexx's release, and about 4 I had resigned myself to the fact that he wasn't going to get released yesterday at all.
Then at 4:30, Alexx called to say that he was being released, but no information on how he was to get home.
It turns out, they wheeled Alexx to the exit in a wheelchair, gave him a voucher for an Uber ride home, and that was it.
Fortunately, we have housemates with a car who came through and drove Alexx home.
But he *is* home so, hopefully, now he can get lots of rest and spoiling and non-carb food (yes, the hospital kept feeding the diabetic high-carb meals and then berating him for his high blood sugar while giving him insulin injections).
I am now adamantly opposed tot he way patients are pressured into going to rehab centers. The pressure is couched in terms of recommendation, given promises of additional physical therapy hours (which do not get fulfilled), and assurances that the patient will be delivered home in an ambulance. Be aware: rehab centers offer profit for other companies.
As soon as the patient rejects the rehab center, the hospital can't seem to get rid of him fast enough. The hospital caseworker wouldn't give us any solid date or time for Alexx's release, and about 4 I had resigned myself to the fact that he wasn't going to get released yesterday at all.
Then at 4:30, Alexx called to say that he was being released, but no information on how he was to get home.
It turns out, they wheeled Alexx to the exit in a wheelchair, gave him a voucher for an Uber ride home, and that was it.
Fortunately, we have housemates with a car who came through and drove Alexx home.
But he *is* home so, hopefully, now he can get lots of rest and spoiling and non-carb food (yes, the hospital kept feeding the diabetic high-carb meals and then berating him for his high blood sugar while giving him insulin injections).
