For over a year now I have had regular home visits from Spirit Home Health Care. Every week I am looked over by a nurse who takes my temperature and my blood pressure, checks my heart rate and my blood oxygen level and monthly, my blood INR. She asks a variety of questions about my health. This past year I have worked with an OT, a PT, respiratory specialists, mobility experts, speech therapists and social workers. In order to continue in the program I must be evaluated every two months. Apparently, I am close to being booted off the program because I am not declining, not static, but improved since last year. My vitals are more stable and normal, my medication is minimal and my pain is nearly gone.
I wonder how many Gehrig's sufferers have been afforded such rejection? I hope that many have found a path to recovery and that none have descended to hospice or worse.
In the end there are only two paths: toward sanctuary or sanatorium. (life or death is altogether too plausible).
I wonder how many Gehrig's sufferers have been afforded such rejection? I hope that many have found a path to recovery and that none have descended to hospice or worse.
In the end there are only two paths: toward sanctuary or sanatorium. (life or death is altogether too plausible).
I'm sooo happy that you have been deemed too healthy for their help. I pray that that trend continues.
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