Colleen[22]: Progress

[mdlbear]

So there's been progress. The paperwork for sending Colleen home has been started; hopefully she'll be coming home on Thursday, though it may be as late as Monday because they don't like to send people home on Friday or weekends. The case managers for both White Blossom and Kaiser agree that she's more than ready. They also agree that it's OK to game the system in order to take advantage of the home nursing service even if their rules are stupid. (Added 12:02 Or rather, because their rules are stupid.)

I went through the entire process of mixing and hanging her IV tonight. Grateful, as usual, for my apparently-excellent memory for processes, and the fact that my right hand is unusually dextrous for a sinister person: I can thank the guitar for that one, I think. Even with both hands it's complicated; there are places where you simply flick a cap away with a thumbnail and clean up afterwards. I'm not really comfortable with it all, and would just as soon let the visiting nurses handle it.

I'm finally hitting the wall on energy and time: I could probably manage filling in for Colleen on chores and errand-running, given a lot of help from the kids. When you include visits, there just isn't time for much of anything else, and a lot of things are getting put off that really ought to get done. We'll make it... Having her home will help a lot even if she can't leave the house. And we'll both sleep better.

Comments

Blessings on your mission

[carmiel.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the bura-crazy paperwork. May it all process smoothly.

Re: Blessings on your mission

[mdlbear]

Thanks!

[obsessivewoman.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

Tony and I gamed the system a bit last in the past 2 yesrs ; don't feel bad about it. (I was on a vacuum dressing for a wound that needed to be changed every 2-3 days, and we snuck away to GAFilk one weekend)

[mdlbear]

*Chuckle*

Not so easy for us -- she'll be stuck at home from about 7pm to 1:30pm (to allow adequate margins of safety). But afternoon shopping trips are feasible.

[brmj.livejournal.com]

Good news!
It probably goes without saying, but I'm hoping for Thursday rather than Monday.

Also, I can't decide whether it is a net good or bad sign for the American health "care" system that even they realize their rules are stupid, but they are willing to work around them. Probably good.

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Great news that she is coming home! I think sinisters are more ambidextrous than our counterparts, guitars or not. :-)

[mdlbear]

True; we're forced into it by scissors and butterknives.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

OH, I know Colleen is *raring* to be home again. May it be sooner rather than later for the sake of her sanity. Hugs!

[mdlbear]

It'll be later, unfortunately. :( :(

Flowercat

[jaycoyote.livejournal.com]

Man, I feel for you. I cared for my aged ill mother for five years, and for my Dad for 4 months before he died. It's good that you can handle processes well, cuz that's what there is. I'm pulling for you with all four legs.

Re: Flowercat

[mdlbear]

Thanks!