Update on Maggiepie
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63594)
United States
September 20, 2012 8:14pm CST
I went down for a "community care meeting" today and they are aiming at sending her home next Monday. The doctor told her that even 2 weeks is way less time than most of their patients...
However, I've seen some of their patients and I'd be surprised if any of them got out any time soon. While Maggie is in there getting stronger and learning to deal with her trach tube, most of these people are there for head injuries I suspect.
So, just to let her friends who are also my friends, have an update on her condition.
Hopefully she'll be online next week and answering discussions!
Have you ever been in a rehab hospital?
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
21 Sep 12
A few years ago I had to have a routine operation. I was in that part of the hospital for a week, and on a liquid diet for 4 days. By the time I had the operation, I was so weak I couldn't walk by myself. I have trouble walking anyway, but it was MUCH wose! They sent me to the therapy wing and I was there for 2 weeks and had therapy at least twice a day. When I did come home a therapist came to my home for about a month. When Maggie does come home, she'll probably have therapists, nurses and all kinds of people coming to help her. I hope she keeps improving.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
21 Sep 12
I'm glad to hear that our friend will soon be home, I know she'll feel a lot better being in familiar surroundings.
I haven't been in a rehab but my mom was after she broke a bone in her pelvis. One nurse there was just a nightmare for us, withholding her pain meds so she wouldn't get "addicted". I finally had to go outside the center all the way to the top of the organization to get that straightened out. Plus, feces from the patient in the room on the other side of the bathroom stayed there all day--and this was a place I chose because it was said to be the best in the area and also associated with an organization my mother (and dad, too) belonged to all her life.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
21 Sep 12
YIKES! That's terrible!
Its like the roomie's grandmother, she was well into her 80's and they stopped giving her pain meds because they were afraid she'd become addicted... Who CARES? Why not let her last couple of years be more comfortable?
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
21 Sep 12
Yeah, that's what I told the witch. Mom was 87, who cares if she's addicted? It's not as if she has to go to the office every day or operate heavy machinery! 
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
21 Sep 12
Hello Elic. I don't know Maggiepie except from what you have shared here. I think I would like to get to know her. I'm glad she is doing better and will be home soon as there is no place like home.
Yes I have been in a Rehab nursing home not a hospital. Last Jan I fell and fractured my tailbone. I had to learn how to deal with a number of things. One was controlling my bladder.
The aides there were so nice that I wouldn't mind going back.
There was a hall that was for rehab clients and a couple of halls for nursing home residents. The only complaint I had was the food. The cooks did know how to cook.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
21 Sep 12
I'll try to get her to respond to a discussion so you can ask her friendship - or the other way around... she's not really good about doing stuff I ask her - she thinks she knows more than I do...
They apparently do pretty good foodwise, except they over cook their chicken...
They apparently do pretty good foodwise, except they over cook their chicken...1 person likes this
@BarBaraPrz (47279)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Sep 12
Glad to hear Maggiepie's doing well and will be home soon.
Have I ever been in a rehab hospital? Does the loony bin count?
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@BarBaraPrz (47279)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Sep 12
Let's put it this way... I didn't have a green light when I talked my way out, but they let me go anyway.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
22 Sep 12
The blind roommate spent some time in one after her surgery this spring... she was telling so many lies they didn't want her to come home. After I "explained" things to her, however, she seemed to finally understand that she was better off here than any place else.
Now, by explain - I mean, laid out the financial facts as to what she could afford... I also explained to the social worker that if she didn't come back, she was cutting those ties completely. You can't expect a person to still be friends after they shaft you.
@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
21 Sep 12
Hugs to Maggie...tell her I'm thinking of her and praying for her. Give her my love!
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
21 Sep 12
From your lips to God's ears...er...from your keyboard to God's eyes!
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
21 Sep 12
Thanks for the update. Always glad to hear from Mags. Tell her hello for me & that i wish her the very best. Happy weekend.
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
21 Sep 12
I never have been in a rehab hospital. When my dad had that stroke of his a few years ago he rehabed in the nursing home in the town I grew up in. He didn't like it at all! I am sure if he had to do it in a hospital,he would hate it just the same!
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
21 Sep 12
This is kind of set up not unlike a nursing home, but I think the aides only have 4 patients, unlike a nursing home where the ratio is a lot higher... even then the aide seemed really slow.
Having said that, the other people are also able to do a lot of the jobs so they have been cross trained to a fair extent - but PT can't do an RT's job nor, I suspect, do they really want to.
@EricSullivan (37)
• United States
22 Apr 14
Yup! I have seen Rehab hospital & I also got the opportunity to work there. Specialist of that rehab centers treats their patient in a great way & help them to come out from those bad incidents & things.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
22 Apr 14
That was a very good rehab hospital. But she went home and ended up very weak again. She went to another rehab hospital, that wasn't QUITE as good. The therapists were great, but the kitchen was uncooperative about her dietary needs. She was there for about 4 months. I, on the other hand, am no longer her helper, though I am still helping out. We've been friends for nearly 40 years, so its not like I'm abandoning her.
