Hubby is coming home from rehab tomorrow!
He's been through a lot since he slipped and fell and the EMT's came to get him to Yale-New Haven Hospital ASAP. It's been over six weeks and he's done so well in rehab he can come home! He fractured his ankle but he had quick help from the hospital team and he really aced the rehab program! He had been depressed and gloomy about his future mobility but I was experiencing real difficulty getting to him to visit and I think he just decided to give it all he had in him to get better!
So grateful to his team at YNHH for giving him such stellar care!
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I am sending love and healing vibes to you both.
People are (sometimes understandably) so disillusioned these days ...
But there really are people out there trying desperately hard to deliver the best kind of care that they can ...
Recognition means a lot (to the sometimes, and again understandably, discouraged). So - thank you! - - - - - - - - - - - -
And BRAVO for you husbands efforts to get home to you.
A lot of us are figuring it out by ourselves, 
You probably have heard this, but, just in case 
. . . he likely will come home with instructions from the therapists to do certain exercises -- exercise, how many repetitions, how many sets, how many times a day. DO THE EXERCISES. Do the exercises the way the therapist taught him to do them and do the number of reps and sets the therapist directed.
You'd be surprised at the number of folks who come home from rehab and figure, well, that's over, I'll just pile up here in my recliner and not worry about that stuff from the therapist. In six weeks, they are back in the hospital.
I'm a retired EMT -- you would not believe the number of people we had to pick up and take to the ER and on the way they would tell me, "well, I had surgery couple of months ago, went through rehab, etc." I would ask them about their PT routine -- "I didn't bother with that, I felt fine when I came home." And on to the ER they went.
