Today seemed somewhat like a Keystone Kops or Three Stooges movie.\u00a0 Looking for an appropriate place to house Nancy just got silly.<\/p>\n
Several of us believe she will progress very rapidly once she is out of the hospital environment and into a place that focuses on physical therapy (PT).\u00a0 The fifth floor has a PT unit with doctors and nurses \u2013 and a reputation of \u201caggressive\u201d action.\u00a0 (No. I don\u2019t know what that means.)\u00a0\u00a0 However they know Nancy is not ready for aggressive therapy and so have agreed to start her slowly.\u00a0 This was thoroughly discussed and thought to be the best solution for the patient.\u00a0 Great.<\/p>\n
But the person in charge of giving the go-ahead at the insurance company is working only from faxed reports.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t believe Nancy needs the 5th<\/sup> floor environment at this time.\u00a0 She thinks somewhere else will be a good fit for a week and then maybe return to the 5th<\/sup> floor.<\/p>\n One of the suggested places has no rooms.\u00a0 Another one sent a representative to the hospital.\u00a0 The idea, I thought, was to talk to Nancy, nurses, and PT folks and decide if the facility would work for Nancy.\u00a0 The representative came to the hospital and starting talking to people and asking to look at reports \u2013 but had no name tag nor credentials and, I think, the hospital case worker contact was not around.\u00a0 Exactly what happened I don\u2019t know, but apparently the on-floor head of the ACU objected to the visitor on privacy grounds, and \u201cbingo\u201d \u2013 Nancy was deemed not a fit for the facility in question.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019m misinformed \u00a0about this but I think something went wrong.<\/p>\n At some point the surgeon and nurse came by, said hello, commented on how good Nancy looked, and went on down the hall. \u00a0Nancy has moved on from their rather substantial and expert skill set.<\/p>\n After I left the head of a rehabilitation place in Ellensburg came to visit Nancy.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know why he was in Yakima but the hospital case worker made contact and in he came.\u00a0 Nancy and her music making friends visit his place once each month to entertain the residents.\u00a0 So he and Nancy recognize each other by sight but are not very well acquainted.\u00a0 He talked with Nancy (maybe others there) and thought his people could take care of Nancy.\u00a0 He is to meet with his staff Wednesday morning and will get back to Nancy with his plan.\u00a0 As we go into Tuesday evening, nothing is certain.<\/p>\n Well, the hospital did promise not to set her on the street corner with a sign asking for a ride to Ellensburg.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not going to be heading down the south-bound lanes of the interstate if she is being carted north.\u00a0\u00a0 I already have an \u201cI\u2019m stupid!\u201d sign and don\u2019t need another.<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Here’s_Your_Sign<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/videos\/bill-engvall\/92484\/im-a-cowboy.jhtml?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today seemed somewhat like a Keystone Kops or Three Stooges movie.\u00a0 Looking for an appropriate place to house Nancy just got silly. Several of us believe she will progress very rapidly once she is out of the hospital environment and into a place that focuses on physical therapy (PT).\u00a0 The fifth floor has a PT … Continue reading “TUESDAY — Need a sign?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-with-phone-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}