hip operation update
Well, I'm home from the hospital and getting into and out of bed is no problem, bath room is another matter. I don't remember much about the first day, but they gave me two pints of blood on the third...
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Duck wrote:TOOBOLD wrote:
You should have been given pain meds before you left the hospital. It takes the rehab facility a few hours to get your medication as they do not have a pharmacy on site.
Hope the rest of your recovery is uneventful.
The rehab hospital my wife used, around 90 beds, has a inventory of the popular drugs used. The social worker at the hospital should have sent a list of needed drugs before the patient left the hospital.
Don
There is a difference between an Acute Rehab Facility vs a Skilled Nursing Facility (nursing home) labeled as rehabs these days. Most insurances will not pay for an Acute Rehab facility if you just had a joint replacement. If you have other neurological/pulmonary issue you have a higher rate of admittance into an acute rehab.
Most SNF's in my area don't have pharmacies and have to wait for the meds to arrive after you have been admitted into their facility.
