Home Sweet Home Again!!!
Coming home again is a good thing after being gone for a while. They say that there is no place like home. So, when my mom found out she would be coming home again after 2 weeks of the nursing facility and one week in the hospital she was over the moon happy. Yesterday was the day that she came back and was more happy then cat chasing a mouse.
But, sitting in a nursing facility and sitting in a hospital for all those weeks she never saw a bathroom as in using a toilet. They love to keep you in depends and for a while that was fine because she couldn't really bend down to the toilet to use it because of her fracture but as time went by and it was getting better and better they never did let her try to use anything that resembled a toilet. Not even a bedside potty which I know in nursing facilities unless you buy one and bring in with you that you are not going to have one. It is easier for them just to put everyone in depends and call it a day. I inquired how many times they change the depends that they stick everyone in and I really didn't get a good answer so I was thinking not many times during the day and from what I could see when I visited my mom that was probably true. Not once did they ask if she needed changing and we had to tell them that the she did. She got physical therapy there twice a day for an hour per day. So, 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon. The rest of the time most of them if they weren't in the room they were propped in front of the TV in the front area of the place which they played a movie that nobody was really watching. Most of them were sleeping. On some days they would play bingo. Bingo for the staff since most of the people they put around the table weren't capable of playing anything. They couldn't move a bingo marker if you paid them to. And the ones who could were not interested in playing so you had about 5-6 CNA's sitting at the table playing basically with each other. They even had a tiny toddler size basket ball hoop in there. I was laughing to myself wondering who was going to play basketball in that group. It was not a place that I would ever want anyone to be. The activities director she tries and is very nice but the activities are not what the residents enjoy as far as I can tell.
Well, my mom is better. Her legs are still weaker then I had expected with all the hype about the therapy
they claimed she was having and I saw for myself exactly what they were doing which was fine if she had it more then an hour per day and the rest of the day just sitting in the wheel chair in front of a TV. The first thing she said when she came back was it is nice to be in a warm place for a change. It was freezing in that other place. I had to agree it was. I think it was warmer outside then inside on more then one occasion. I had to put on her jacket and zip up mine.
But, by the grace of God and everything good that is over with now. I can only hope that we never ever have to go through this or anything similar again. I am going to do my best to make sure that we don't. Because there is no place like home.
But, sitting in a nursing facility and sitting in a hospital for all those weeks she never saw a bathroom as in using a toilet. They love to keep you in depends and for a while that was fine because she couldn't really bend down to the toilet to use it because of her fracture but as time went by and it was getting better and better they never did let her try to use anything that resembled a toilet. Not even a bedside potty which I know in nursing facilities unless you buy one and bring in with you that you are not going to have one. It is easier for them just to put everyone in depends and call it a day. I inquired how many times they change the depends that they stick everyone in and I really didn't get a good answer so I was thinking not many times during the day and from what I could see when I visited my mom that was probably true. Not once did they ask if she needed changing and we had to tell them that the she did. She got physical therapy there twice a day for an hour per day. So, 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon. The rest of the time most of them if they weren't in the room they were propped in front of the TV in the front area of the place which they played a movie that nobody was really watching. Most of them were sleeping. On some days they would play bingo. Bingo for the staff since most of the people they put around the table weren't capable of playing anything. They couldn't move a bingo marker if you paid them to. And the ones who could were not interested in playing so you had about 5-6 CNA's sitting at the table playing basically with each other. They even had a tiny toddler size basket ball hoop in there. I was laughing to myself wondering who was going to play basketball in that group. It was not a place that I would ever want anyone to be. The activities director she tries and is very nice but the activities are not what the residents enjoy as far as I can tell.
Well, my mom is better. Her legs are still weaker then I had expected with all the hype about the therapy
But, by the grace of God and everything good that is over with now. I can only hope that we never ever have to go through this or anything similar again. I am going to do my best to make sure that we don't. Because there is no place like home.
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