Category Archives: Hospital

Day 36

Cindy had a visit from the discharge Case Manager yesterday.  She told us that patients are usually discharged after 28 days and either go to a sub-acute care facility, skilled nursing facility or home – depending on your health status.  The Case Manager asked many questions about Cindy’s condition before she was admitted to the hospital, insurance questions and some other personal questions.  But my favorite question and response was the following:

Case Manager:  What religion are you?

Cindy (after a lot of thought):  Whichever one has presents.

The Case Manager also wanted to make sure she was able to contact Cindy’s main support team – Rita, Mary and Debbie.  One of us is usually with Cindy at the hospital.  Here is a picture of Rita setting up shop at Cindy’s bedside:

Day 32

Reminder – Cindy is at Kindred Hospital in San Leandro and not at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek.  Kindred is a Long Term Care Facility.  The average stay is usually a month or more.

Cindy was connected to the oxygen again today for 6 hours.  The assist level will go down tomorrow morning (good news) and she will also be on the oxygen connection later in the day for at least 6 – 8 hours.

Day 28

Cindy started the day off with Physical and Speech Therapies.  She worked really hard at both and is getting stronger.  The Pulmonary doctor started to wean her off the trachea after giving her a rest for the last two days.  This afternoon, Cindy was moved out of ICU into a regular room.  She also started Occupational Therapy.

HAPPY CHANUKAH!!!!

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Day 26

Cindy is being transferred from John Muir Hospital to Kindred Hospital.  Kindred is a Long Term Acute Care hospital where they will continue to wean Cindy off of the trachea and continue helping her with her recovery.

This is a BIG STEP!!!

Kindred Hospital

Check out the Memory Lane – Pictures and Memory Lane – Stories pages on the right side of the blog.   There is also a new page called Talkies.  You can create a You Tube video and send me the link at debra.lobel@gmail.com.


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