Mom has been transferred to the rehab facility across the street from the hospital, and she isn't too happy about it. She keeps on asking why I can't take her home. I explained that she had been bedridden for two weeks, and needed rehab to regain her mobility. She said 'why didn't anybody make it clearer?" and I said 'they probably thought you were too sleepy to take it all in last night. You did start new medication, and got a little confused ( she asked me when our plane would be boarding passengers, and not to leave for Ireland without her).
However, she does have a point about Doctors, especially the team of doctors who approved her assignment to rehab. Yesterday, when they gave the clearance, and spoke to Mom and me, I asked about her seizure medication, and shouldn't it be monitored more closely, since she'd only been on it 24 hours. I was informed she didn't have a seizure, during her Morning EEG, so it wasn't a seizure or stroke. Then I asked, don't you want to find out what it is? and was dismissed with the assurance that her regular Dr. 9 who is on vacation) could ask the Neurologist to examine her at the Rehab Center. ( Thanks to HIPPA, the protocol of getting a doctor assigned to a hospitalized patient is more elaborate than the protocol at Versailles during the reign of Louis XVI
More later.
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