Back home

We got her home about two weeks ago after a month in the hospital. After improving and getting out of ICU for her seizures, she moved back to a regular room. She wasn't to get out of bed to walk as her balance had been poor all along and the nurses knew it, however they failed to secure her in bed, keep the rails up, or post the notification on the door she was a fall hazard. A nurse walked in and found her on the floor. They xrayed her knees to see if she hurt them, but the xray looked ok. She began to complain of hip pain, and told the physical rehab people about it, but they walked her around anyway. While standing they heard a pop, and her leg broke leaving her in more pain then she's ever had in her life. Why the rehab people didn't heed her complaints of hip pain I'll never know. Surgery next day to install a rod inside her femur. Two more weeks in the hospital, and she is finally home. I'm so angry with the nurses for failing to protect her safety from the first fall, and angry with the phys therapy folk for walking her when her hip was in so much pain (and not suggesting another xray on the hip).

She's home now, but may never recover from the leg break enough to walk on her own. And dealing with chemo in her brain and another in her body all at the same time. Thank God she is a strong woman.