My mother in law's back in the hospital

glatt · 02-17-2014, 08:54 AM

I'm glad she's getting out of rehab. I hope she has a better quality of life now.

I'm surprised they haven't pushed a visiting home rehab person on you yet. My FIL got that pushed on him. It's all paid for, but he wanted none of it.

chrisinhouston · 02-20-2014, 01:05 PM

Well we finally got her home on Tuesday. Last Friday we had told the nursing center we would get her at 10AM on Tuesday which was fine with them and also let the senior's apartment complex know she would be coming back and to please make sure they cleaned her apartment as we noticed not much was touched in the 6 weeks she was gone. We also asked once again for the bug man to treat for roaches. They told us it would all be taken care of in time.

So we stopped by on Tuesday at 9AM to drop off some things at her apartment and found everything had been removed from the kitchen cabinets and drawers for the bug man and no one had run a mop or vacuumed! My wife went to the main office and tore someone a new hole in their rear end and in 2 minutes we had the head of housekeeping and the director of the whole place there assuring us it would all be done quickly but they needed her to stay away until 1PM for the bug stuff to not be an issue for her or her dog. Not happy but we agreed and went to get her. Took her to our house where she had lunch and slept on our couch. Picked up her dog from the kennel, just under $1000 for 43 days boarding! Wonder if we can submit that claim to Medicare?

Finally loaded her and the dog in the car and took her home. She started crying when she entered saying she forgot all the things she had in the apartment! I said we should have cleared a bunch of it out and moved her into a smaller one if we had known she would forget. You don't understand but every square inch of her floor, walls, closets etc is covered and packed with stuff.

She seems to be doing pretty well so far. She is cooking a bit again and takes her dog out for walks while driving her electric wheel chair. Only time will tell, she turns 88 next month. I guess she is doing better than a lot of folks her age.

02-17-2014, 08:54 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I'm glad she's getting out of rehab. I hope she has a better quality of life now. I'm surprised they haven't pushed a visiting home rehab person on you yet. My FIL got that pushed on him. It's all paid for, but he wanted none of it.

02-20-2014, 01:05 PM	#2
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	Well we finally got her home on Tuesday. Last Friday we had told the nursing center we would get her at 10AM on Tuesday which was fine with them and also let the senior's apartment complex know she would be coming back and to please make sure they cleaned her apartment as we noticed not much was touched in the 6 weeks she was gone. We also asked once again for the bug man to treat for roaches. They told us it would all be taken care of in time. So we stopped by on Tuesday at 9AM to drop off some things at her apartment and found everything had been removed from the kitchen cabinets and drawers for the bug man and no one had run a mop or vacuumed! My wife went to the main office and tore someone a new hole in their rear end and in 2 minutes we had the head of housekeeping and the director of the whole place there assuring us it would all be done quickly but they needed her to stay away until 1PM for the bug stuff to not be an issue for her or her dog. Not happy but we agreed and went to get her. Took her to our house where she had lunch and slept on our couch. Picked up her dog from the kennel, just under $1000 for 43 days boarding! Wonder if we can submit that claim to Medicare? Finally loaded her and the dog in the car and took her home. She started crying when she entered saying she forgot all the things she had in the apartment! I said we should have cleared a bunch of it out and moved her into a smaller one if we had known she would forget. You don't understand but every square inch of her floor, walls, closets etc is covered and packed with stuff. She seems to be doing pretty well so far. She is cooking a bit again and takes her dog out for walks while driving her electric wheel chair. Only time will tell, she turns 88 next month. I guess she is doing better than a lot of folks her age.

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