Thursday - moving day

Thursday morning was a repeat of Wednesday morning. Get up, get cleaned up, eat breakfast, and go to PT. This morning I rolled Susan down to the PT room. We had a new nurse named Rena, and she is very nice.

We found out around noon we would be moved to the 5th floor acute PT area of the hospital. Our reaction was "Great! What time when do we go up there?" That seemed to be the $64,000 question.

We finally get told we were moving just when dinner showed up. (5:45) We had them wait, then we gathered our stuff and moved. The room we are now in is much smaller, and I'm having to stay in the house on the grounds as a result. We found out that if we had come up earlier, we could have gotten the suite. Some woman who is here on workman's comp is in there, and she had no desire to switch. I was told by the nurse she was somewhat rude. The woman's attitude was something along the lines of "Workman's comp is paying for all this, so I don't give a ****" Oh well, we will make the best of it. It is hard to do things for to get to one thing in the room, you have to move other things out of the way. To give you a idea of how small it is, it can be compared to a $2000 a month studio apartment in Manhattan.

Susan got to wash her hair in the sink. It made her feel much better. She is learning new tricks on how to manage with the walker and getting around.

Lesson to guys: Learn how to put on stocking. You may need to do this for your wife. Many hospital patients have to wear T.E.D. stockings to help prevent blood clots from forming in the legs. I was given a quick lesson on how to put them on. Susan hates them , but they do help.