AmberGretchen
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Some of you may have seen my post about my mom''s hip replacement. Well, things were going very well - I was there with her all day today and she had two physical therapy sessions and managed to walk with a walker at both - everyone was very impressed with how well she did, and the doctor came to see her and said that she would have to stay at least until Saturday but could hopefully go home between then and Monday. The only snag came when the 2nd physical therapist was overly rough in helping her get out of bed and wrenched her hip, which made it sore.
So after being at the hospital all day I came home (our apartment is only about 5 minutes away), and not 5 minutes after I walk in the door mom calls - without warning or discussing it with her or anything, they took away her IV pain medication, which she was being allowed to control. No one had mentioned anything about this all day, they just came and took it out, and now she has to switch over the oral medications, which she has a lot of trouble keeping down (like me, she throws a lot of things right up), and they don''t even know if they have one of the few meds she is able to take! Then, while we were on the phone, someone came in to take her to X-Ray, again with no warning, and they were talking about removing her from the hospital earlier than her doctor recommended when the phone got cut off and I haven''t been able to reach her since. My brother, who is a nurse practitioner and on the faculty at the hospital where she is, is on his way there right now, but the whole thing seems incredibly bizaare to me. I mean, why would they do that with no warning at all, its not like she isn''t competent to discuss her treatment or anything (in fact, she is one of the most intelligent and highly educated people I know). And I''m worried because now I can''t even reach her - as my brother said, its almost like they "kidnapped" her to X-Ray. Also, it was my understanding that inpatient stuff like radiology was normally done during normal business hours whenever possible, i.e. in non-emergency situations. So why did they wait to do this and to remove her pain meds until right after I left?!!
Anyway, I am hoping to hear an update any minute now, but I was hoping maybe some of you medical people on here could give me insight - this just seems to strange and inexplicable.
Thanks for letting me vent my worry in any case.
So after being at the hospital all day I came home (our apartment is only about 5 minutes away), and not 5 minutes after I walk in the door mom calls - without warning or discussing it with her or anything, they took away her IV pain medication, which she was being allowed to control. No one had mentioned anything about this all day, they just came and took it out, and now she has to switch over the oral medications, which she has a lot of trouble keeping down (like me, she throws a lot of things right up), and they don''t even know if they have one of the few meds she is able to take! Then, while we were on the phone, someone came in to take her to X-Ray, again with no warning, and they were talking about removing her from the hospital earlier than her doctor recommended when the phone got cut off and I haven''t been able to reach her since. My brother, who is a nurse practitioner and on the faculty at the hospital where she is, is on his way there right now, but the whole thing seems incredibly bizaare to me. I mean, why would they do that with no warning at all, its not like she isn''t competent to discuss her treatment or anything (in fact, she is one of the most intelligent and highly educated people I know). And I''m worried because now I can''t even reach her - as my brother said, its almost like they "kidnapped" her to X-Ray. Also, it was my understanding that inpatient stuff like radiology was normally done during normal business hours whenever possible, i.e. in non-emergency situations. So why did they wait to do this and to remove her pain meds until right after I left?!!
Anyway, I am hoping to hear an update any minute now, but I was hoping maybe some of you medical people on here could give me insight - this just seems to strange and inexplicable.
Thanks for letting me vent my worry in any case.