not walking

i cant believe some of you are sent home before you can walk. That must be incredibly difficult for you. It was bad enough being immobile while i was in icu with 24/7 one on one care, i cannot imagine how difficult it would be at home.

It seems there are a lot of you struggling to get physio too. I was lucky i got physio twice a day while i was in icu. Even when i was paralysed they would come and move my limbs. Maybe that contributed to my rapid recovery. When i went to the ward i could not even get out of bed on my own. Within days i was walking and by the time i got transferred back to my local hospital 10 days later i was walking all over the ward with a walker and able to shower myself.

I spent 10 days at my local hospital for inpatient rehab. I had physio twice a day which was basically relearning how to walk, balance etc. Within a few days i had ditched the walking frame and after 10 days they said i could go home with no further physio required. They said if i had required ongoing physio they would have kept me as an inpatient.

I am releived i did not have to fight for any of the treatments i received. (maybe if i had gone through my insurance company it may have been a different story!) Maybe if some of the people who make the decisions had to go through what we have been through they might be a little more caring.