Dbubley

[loracs]

I haven't posted a dbubley update for a while.  She is still in the rehab center.  Her surgery incision is taken its own sweet time healing, but healing it is.  To protect her one kidney, she is on a low potassium diet.  I try to bring her some meals, because the food choices there are pretty limited.  She never liked turkey or white meat chicken, but now she pretty much hates it. 

On the mobility front, she is not getting up by herself, but once they help her up, she is taking 5 or 6 steps with the walker.  dbubley said it's like she has forgotten how to get to the standing position.  Both she and PT's think she is strong enough to do it, but she can not get herself out of the chair.  She thinks it might be a mental block and we're looking for someone to go to her and try some hypnotherapy to help her get over this.  The only hypnotherapist we know doesn't travel.  If any local folks know someone who might be willing to travel to San Leandro and work with dbubley , please let me know. 

We really hope she is home before this, but by the 3rd week in May, she will be out of her 100 days and have to come home, ready or not. 

to be continued . . .

Comments

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the update. Goddess bless you both.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

They only give 100 days? What happens to people who need more? This kind of shit makes me FURIOUS!

[loracs.livejournal.com]

I guess after 100 days, you go home or you pay to stay. Once she's out, she has to stay out for 90 days before it resets to 100. I suspect there is an appeal process too, but we hope we don't have to go there.

[firecat]

Hoping she's home soon.