Looking Forward to July Twenty First

Tuesday... June 30, 2009

Lots of activity today.

Pattie had a Patient Conference today.

In addition to the regular physical and occupational therapies, BIR (Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation) schedules a weekly update for each patient with their doctor, the Nursing Coordinator, Therapy Coordinator, a Social Services Coordinator, and others.

This is to chart the progress of each patient, and see what changes need to be made to their rehab schedule. This meeting today is also when we learned of the estimated discharge date from BIR:

07-21-09.

Of course, this date is not set in stone. Based on how well Pattie does, it could be moved up. Or back.

But based on the last few days.... Pattie is doing very well. Each day her pain levels are decreasing as her rehab skills are increasing.

On The Move.

Pattie has been at BIR only 5 days; yet she is in her third room. When she first arrived here, she was in a semi-private room. It was nice enough, but they put us on the list to get a private room when space became available.

The semi-private rooms are OK, but they are rather small and offer little privacy. One side of the room has a bathroom sink and the bathroom itself. The other side has nothing. So if a patient on the wrong side of the room needs to use the bathroom - they have to invade the space of their roommate. And did I mention the rooms are small? If A visitor is in the room and a tech or nurse comes in to assist the patient; the visitor must leave the room. There is no space inside the room to get out of the way.

Anyway, Pattie likes a cold room. Her first roommate complained as she liked a warmer room. So Pattie was moved. Her second roommate was nice enough and she liked a cold room also, but she was noisy. Very noisy. I won't go into further details.

Now Pattie is in a private room. Room 421. I'd post the room's telephone number, but Pattie is in and out with her therapies, so calling may not be a good option at this time.

Here is Pattie's Appointment List for today.

09:30 - 10:00 OT Dressing
10:30 - 11:30 PT Treatment
Lunch
01:30 - 02:30 Lower Extremity Therapy
02:30 - 03:00 Upper Extremity Therapy.

Each day Pattie gets a new schedule with similar activities. So she always knows what is on her calendar for each day.

Thanks again for visiting this blog. And for keeping Pattie in your thoughts and prayers. And call Ted at (210) 316-1594 anytime for more news and updates.