Today was a busy day for Mom. They had her going at 9am until 2pm with physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy (which for her is essentially memory specific since her speech is fine). I took DJ to school in the morning and and then went to the hospital to meet with her social worker to get all the release details. She gave me a list of stuff they would give us, along with some things we would need to buy ourselves. She seems to think Monday is going to be the day. At noon I went back and picked DJ up and the 2 of us went back to the hospital to have lunch with Mom. She gets so excited to see her grandkids, and I think it was good for DJ to see his Grammy too. At a 1:30 they took her for one last session and DJ and I went back to Ramona to trade places with Dana. So I spent the afternoon/evening with Alex while Dana got to hang out with Mom until after she had dinner. It was a good day.
While Dana was there one of Mom's therapists came in and said they were thinking about pushing the release date to Wednesday the 21st. Their thought was they could get her to a point where she didn't need any assistance at all with an extra 2 days. Needless to say, this upset Mom GREATLY! She started off being sad, then mad, then tears, and finally she told Dana that she needed to go talk to the therapist. Dana went in and explained that she lived down the road, I was going to be here for another 2 weeks, and that our Dad was in charge of his own schedule. She was not going to be alone and she would not truly know what she needed to learn to do at home until she was actually at home. She also mentioned that Mom's state of mind would be greatly diminished if they were to take this away from her now for 2 extra days. The therapist agreed and so Monday is back on the books. Amen! Dana teased Mom that she better make sure she doesn't slack off in therapy now!!
She will most likely have a home care nurse come a couple of days a week in the first few weeks to help with recovery and medical cares. Eventually she will have to go back to regular PT for her knee as well. But just getting her home will be such a weight off of everybody's shoulders and make her understand that she actually is making amazing progress. She is a little too hard on herself sometimes and we have to remind her that everyday she is getting better.
Although we are looking at the end of her hospital stay, we will still need to have lots of prayers in the upcoming weeks as hopefully life gets a little closer to normal! We are so grateful for all of your well wishes and love! It has truly lifted us up and kept us going. I look forward to the post where I can say she is home and post a picture of her back on her ranch!
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