Yet Another Move

Well Lara, my sister, went in for a regular visit with Carolyn and a much needed conversation with the social worker. Much to our surprise the social worker told Lara that the insurance had stopped covering Carolyn's care about a week prior and that we needed to transfer Carolyn tomorrow (this all happened last week). Needless to say we were taken by surprise. Especially since we had been trying to connect with Carolyn's social worker/ case manager for about three weeks. We're not sure what would have happened if Lara hadn't insisted on see the social worker when she did. As anyone who has visited Carolyn in the last few days can tell you, Carolyn is still at Healthsouth. We knew that she was probably going to need to be transferred to a long term skilled nursing facility sometime in the next few months so we had already started looking into them. We just had no idea that it would happen this quickly. We are trying to get her placed at Town & Country Manor in Boerne. She will need a private room because of her needs. They think there should be a room available within the next week. I'll post more information when I get it.

Now for an update on Carolyn herself. Apparently the physician overseeing her care decided to discontinue some of her medications about three weeks ago. We have been trying to speak to her doctor for about a month and have not had any of our calls or notes answered. We don't know why it was stopped because Carolyn had seemed to be responding well to it and since it has been stopped has shown some signs of slight regression. She has become a lot less cooperative with the therapists and nursing staff. Because she has not been doing well with therapy and had stopped progressing, the insurance felt that she was no longer benefiting from the rehab hospital. Once she is settle in a skilled nursing facility we will try to arrange for her to continue therapy. One of the reasons we are trying to get her in at Town & Country is that Carolyn's primary care physician (pre-accident) makes regular visits there. Hopefully, having a knowledge of Carolyn before the accident will help in her treatment. Physically Carolyn is doing OK, but to my knowledge, she hasn't seemed to make much more progress cognitively.

Mike was scheduled to go in and had his kidney stone taken care of yesterday. Unfortunately I have not been able to get a hold of him to see how he is doing. He has been receiving some at-home physical/occupational therapy and is continuing to improve. He also seems to be handling things better emotionally as well. I'll have to post another update for him as soon as I am able to get a hold of him.

Thanks to all who continue to support us and provide help to Mike and Carolyn. I continue to be amazed at the generosity of those around us.