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Peregrine Took

(7,583 posts)
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:41 AM Jul 26

They said I was "too well" for re-hab place.

So here I am at home, feet too swollen to walk, half dressed as it hurts too much to put something on, can’t speak - lost my voice sometime in that week in the hospital for spinal fushion .. and without the assistance of my exhausted , 2 heart attack, 82 yr old husband to cook, bring meds, etc I don’t know what I would do!

Thanks Aetna advantage.!

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They said I was "too well" for re-hab place. (Original Post) Peregrine Took Jul 26 OP
Can you get home health? Jilly_in_VA Jul 26 #1
I hope that you see improvement very soon! brer cat Jul 26 #2
Dear, dear Peregrine, here is an idea. MLAA Jul 26 #3
This is how they want to end Medicare, gab13by13 Jul 26 #4
That's the plan. Ritabert Jul 26 #8
Does your surgeon's practice have a social worker on staff? They can work wonders with the system. dutch777 Jul 26 #5
Home health starts tomorrow.. I can't fathom Peregrine Took Jul 26 #6
D S Q justaprogressive Jul 26 #7
Healing vibes on the way to you SheltieLover Jul 26 #9

Jilly_in_VA

(12,743 posts)
1. Can you get home health?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:46 AM
Jul 26

It's at least worth a try.

Medicare Advantage is a scam. I have straight ol' plain Medicare. I know it's risky these days, but Advantage(any kind) is worse.

MLAA

(19,412 posts)
3. Dear, dear Peregrine, here is an idea.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 10:57 AM
Jul 26

Could you go to the emergency room? I’m wondering if after they see you they would admit you to the hospital and then possibly another stay at rehab since you have complications.

My sister had a spinal fusion a year ago. After release she had extreme pain so I took her to the emergency room and they gave her a shot of extremely strong meds after which her oral pain meds could then keep up with the pain. The doctor explained if the pain gets too bad oral pain meds can’t control it but after shot then they can maintain.

Keep us posted and sending you healing vibes!

Just remembered that once admitted in the hospital you have a legal right to appeal if you think you are being released too soon. The staff explained that to my husband each time he was in the hospital. 🩷

dutch777

(4,690 posts)
5. Does your surgeon's practice have a social worker on staff? They can work wonders with the system.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:10 AM
Jul 26

The docs mean well but they focus on the one part they worked on and forget their is a whole person and a family situation attached to that and there are other and broader needs. The social workers are better advocates for your situation. Your PCP practice may also have one that can help. Wish you the best.

Peregrine Took

(7,583 posts)
6. Home health starts tomorrow.. I can't fathom
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:40 AM
Jul 26

How much ground I’ve lost in just one week. Yikes! Of course most of that time I spent in bed taking tons of God knows what kind of drugs. And me, (usually sooo careful about everything I take checking all side effects, etc )just swallowing and gobbling them all up.by the little cup full.

At 81, after hours on general anesthesia it’s no wonder I woke up on the couch(can’t get in and out of bed due to super painful shoulder) this morning thinking my husband had just been in saying we were leaving on a trip to Galena. Il in a few hours!! Of course, when I asked him about the trip a few hours later… it never happened.

I’m so out of it, physically and mentally, I really could have used a few days in a good rehab place and Tom could have used a break, too.
I belong to a State retiree plan and this is what they gave us. It happened the one time we made a huge mistake and let a republican governor in!



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