Hey Family! Update on Mom!

Hello family! I have not been able to post to much with my mother being so sick and do apologize for not posting to much to you all in here. My time here lately has been not much having!
I must say these past two weeks have been severely stressful. Not to mention exhausting. Having CIDP too does not help matters either. Right now my poor feet and legs are killing me.
My moms creatinine levels finally started dropping and are slowly dropping a little each day. The hospital which infuriates me discharged my mother while she was still barfing her guts out and the doctor told us that there really wasn’t much more they could do that the rehab couldn’t do for her. Boy have they got me really pi..ed off with them.
They discharged my mom last Monday right at the beginning of her levels dropping and sent her by ambulance to a Nursing Home Rehab Facility. Got her admitted and the next day the Nurse calls me up to tell me how sick my mom was and she felt my mom needed to go to the hospital. I want you to know that hospital didn’t even report to them that she was in this condition and here they were thinking she was ready for Rehab Treatment. So I have to give them a detailed description of what had been going on 9 days while she was in the hospital.
Then the Nursing Home Rehab tells me that if my mother does not reach a criteria through Medicare that they will have no choice but to kick her out of the program. She had 7 days to reach that goal. And from Monday to Wednesday all she did was barf and no rehab. We had two choices then. Place her in the nursing home side or bring her home. I went into her room and she told me she wanted to go home. Told her I could take her home that she needed extra special care. She tells me she is going to die if she stays there.
I had to go outside and call my husband and tell him our problem. He tells me to bring her home. Our home! Went back inside and told her to look at me. At first she didn’t want to look at me. Then she finally did. I asked her if she wanted to come to my home and stay with me. And she started crying and said she couldn’t be a burden on me. Then I asked her again! She finally said yes!
Went into the office and talked with the Case Worker and they made the arrangments for her to come here. Hired a housekeeper to come in Thursday and they spring cleaned my house! $200.00! Then the same day the Hospital Bed and the Wheelchair along with some PT items, Toilet Seat, Shower Chair. We had to move our mattress and box springs into the other room. Take doors down etc! Friday the ambulance arrived with my mother. Early that morning we had to go to her rehab and pack her belongings. Then came home and waited for her to arrive. My husband took two vacation days off to help with the moving of my mom.
She was still barfing her guts out Friday. And I started her on ice chips to keep her hydrated. I have been busting my fanny for 3 days now trying to get my mom hydrated and back to eating again. She has had no PT at all. But so far the very hard struggling work looks like it might be paying off. She has not gotten sick for 24 hours now and this morning actually ate 1 slice of toast for breakfast, some potato soup for lunch, and mashed potatoes for dinner. We are giving her phenergan for nausea and vomiting. They have two RX’s for Perocet and Darvocet but want me to wean her off the Percocet and replace it with Darvocet. Her knee looked like a basketball on Friday. Now the swelling is going down. And today we actually started her on some bed types of PT. Tomorrow the Home Health comes in and the Physical Therapist and will access her and we go from there. She will have labs twice a week. But today for the first time, I actually think my mom is finally going to survive this horrible ordeal. And instead of Darvocet we are giving her high strength Tylenol. Talked with the doctor last night on the phone about the pain meds and felt that too was attributing some of the nausea and today she seems to be doing better.
My mom has 3 different insurance policies because my father was Military and Postal employed. What really irks me is here she has been so sick and because of certain criterias Medicare would only cover certain things and her other insurance covered the rest. So they move a very sick lady to another facility and pass the buck to that facility and if that patient does not reach that criteria they get placed in a loop hole.
The moment I mention her coming to my house and giving her care and Medicare knows that will save them money they are now willing to pay for her care. And my mother could have died because of their stinken rotten criteria’s. And then what makes me mad is one doctor telling me that she is old and there really is not much they can do for old people. Telling me she has Acute Renal Failure and they did their part and it’s now time for her to be discharged from the hospital. Knowing she couldn’t even keep her food down and was sick as a dog. Which made me feel like they saw her dying and needed the stinken hospital bed for more money in the hospital and lets send her there to a nursing home to die. I am outraged! Totally outraged!
But thanks to me busting my humps and trying super hard with my mom I now have her eating and drinking again. It’s been round the clock care! But I think we are now starting to come out of the woods and hopefully we will start seeing a recovery soon. Just going to take one day at a time one step at a time.
I will try to come in here soon but just have not had much time. Been resting when she is resting and doing whatever I could and can to save my mom’s life. I feel too that if my mother would have stayed in that place she would have died. But now I think my mom is finally going to make! Just hope and pray now that she does not get a UTI! So I am being extremely careful seeing she gets fluids and ones that are healthy. No caffiene!
Keep the prayers going for my mom! I hope by next week I see her starting to walk and eating and no more being sick! Hugs family!
Linda H