I think the reason I was very happy with my care when I was in rehab was because I was at a hospital Not Nursing Home/Rehab facility. We all know that nursing home care sucks big time. There was always enough equipment and tables to work on. My P.T. was scheduled at a hour at a time twice a day, and I always had the same therapist except for weekends. Even the weekend people were wonderful. It sounds as though it depends are where you live and what is available to you. I was fortunate that I lived near large hospitals.
Patti From: Akua [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [TMIC] REHAB As some of the other TM'ers have found out when being in a skilled nursing/rehab facility and required more care than others - you don't always get it. Another thing that makes me angry on reflection is that , though i was paralyzed and had TM, I was a lot less work than a lot of other patients. I was younger than 95% of the other residents, I could communicate. I was easy to contain and maintain from a nursing standpoint. They only had to help me move from place to place and teach me how to move. Having upper body meant that no one had to feed me or dress me or wash me -- they just had to get me to the food or the shower. If they were better resourced, my falling in the shower wouldn't have happened-- that happened with an unassisted transfer from a wet shower bench into a sliding wheel chair (I'm falling i said as the aide stood and watched me fall) at home as in the hospital -- i don't do wet transfers-- I use a shower wheelchair so no more going from wet to wet. One of the things I would love to fix is nursing homes.... think tank? Lobby? there's a guy who has developed new kind of community for nursing homes, healthy... but they are few and far between and require $. for me the prison analogy holds --- people are supposed to be rehabilitated, but they are most often warehoused. -- "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." Mohandas Gandhi
