Aug 1 2009 6:30pm

WE ARE FINALLY HOME!!!!!!!

What a mess. The two doctors yesterday said she could go home today, but, the forgot to put it in their charting notes. Today, another doctor from the group stopped by and said he had to talk to the ortho. doc. before discharging Mom. Well, 3+ hours later, we were still there. The RN said she would look into it. In the mean time, a discharge coordinator stopped by the room to make plans to discharge Mom to a skilled nursing facility for 48 hours. OH NO, THIS WAS NOT HAPPEING. She is in better shape today than she was the last time I brought her home. I told her that she was going home with me, if I had to take her out without doctors orders.

At 12:50, the RN came in and finally had reached both the doctors that needed to release her and got it all taken care of. GOD BLESS Mechelle. She hung her last IV antibiotic. That took over 2 hours to get into her system (the usual time) and went over paperwork with me, called for the wheelchair escort to take us down. WELL, 30 minutes later, she called them again and told me if they were not there in 10 minutes to let her know. I told her that I had my own wheelchair in the van and I would take her down myself, but we were leaving the hospital today!

Well the wheelchair showed up, took us down to the van, and now Mom is napping in her own bed.

She had wonderful caring people taking care of her and I have no complaints except for the doctor this morning. I will be talking to Dr. Borecky about this issue. He is so new to Graybill, he didn't even know all the doctors names and didn't want to take responsibility for sending her home. If she had to stay another day because of him, he was going to be paying for that day in the hospital!

Mom is walking slowly with her walker. She is able to get down the hall to the bathroom and back to her room again. Much better than when she came home 2 weeks ago.

Will update Sunday...