Phesina updates - Home!!!

[Catty1]

I'm glad Pat is feeling better now than before the surgery! Things can only get better. I'll send a card off to her shortly.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

So happy to hear Pat's surgery went well and she is on the mend!!! Get Well Soon Pat!!!

[Karen]

I heard from Phesina's sister - good news!

Pat is being discharged today from University Hospital to go to the rehabilitation center:

Regency at Bluffs Park
355 Huron View Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI
734-887-8700

(This facility earned a 5-star rating from US News & Business Report for Best Nursing Homes 2014.)

She’ll be there for several days, and then go home. She’s in good spirits and seems to be healing very well.

She really appreciates your calls and cards, as do I. Thank you, everyone.

One more step on the road to recovery!

[Catty1]

i heard from phesina's sister - good news!



One more step on the road to recovery!

yaaahooooo!!!!!

[smokey the elder]

Get well soon!

[mbsmum]

Glad to hear thet everything is going well.Loving Greetings from Switzerland. Prathima

[Grace]

Wonderful news

I wonder if she'll get a room with a view of the Huron River?

[slick]

I just had a long conversation with Pat. She is doing well and sounds good. Since she just arrived in rehab today, she is unsure as to how long she will be in there. Today they had her in a semi-private room but tomorrow (Wednesday) she gets moved into her own room. At that time there will be a phone put in so she can receive phone calls. Anyone can track her down by calling the number of the facility listed in Karen's post above.

She says hi to all of you and thanks for thinking of her.

Oh, and guess what I got in the mail today??? A card by none other than Sparkler with some of her fur. Sparkler calls me her Mewomie-in-law. So cute.

I will be calling her again in about two days time. Hopefully she will know more then.

[Karen]

Aww, thanks for the update, Slick!
And how fun you got the card today!

[Scooter's Mom]

Glad to see the news that she is on the mend. Whoever speaks to her next, give her my best wishes and love.

[phesina]

Hi everybody!

Greetings from Regency at Bluffs Park (http://www.cienahealthcare.com/michi...t-bluffs-park/)! At last I got my laptop connected!

Thanks so very much for all the loving thoughts and good wishes and prayers and everything. I can't tell you how much I appreciate them all and love you for them.

The surgery went very well, and I'm already moving around free of the pain I had before. The surgeon said there was a lot of nerve damage in there, so I guess it's good that I had it done now rather than wait six months.

The incision has been taking its time draining, so that's why I was at the hospital this long. The surgeon decided to let me go rather than do a surgical wash now, though that could happen yet.

Pat

[Karen]

Yay, glad you are able to read and post again!

[phesina]

Having been down this same road, I'll tell you that she can cook (just as long as she's not trying to do a 20 lb turkey ), but the vacuuming is out for a while!!!! No BLT - bending/lifting/twisting.

Right, no BLT...

Pom, did you do any rehab at all, or you went straight home, didn't you, since you had family to go home to. Did you have PT and OT and stuff to do?

Did you have any extended time incision draining?

Pat

[pomtzu]

Right, no BLT...

Pom, did you do any rehab at all, or you went straight home, didn't you, since you had family to go home to. Did you have PT and OT and stuff to do?

Did you have any extended time incision draining?

Pat

Hi Pat...

I was sorry to read that things didn't go quite as smoothly for you as they did for me -- but every patient has different outcomes on the same procedure. Gretchen sailed right thru her hip replacement, while my BIL had life threatening complications that could have cost him his leg - or even his life. After a 2nd surgery 2 or 3 weeks after the first, to go in and clean everything out, he is home and on the road to recovery. It was touch and go for a while tho.

I had a lot more draining on the 2nd procedure than I did the first time, but they pulled the drain anyway after 3 days. Didn't seem to have any ill effects, but then a month after the surgery, I had that torn fascia and the spinal fluid leak that caused my back all along the incision, to look like Spongebob. With the lumbar compression brace, it squished most of it back into my system and was just absorbed naturally. I got some nerve irritation from the brace and can't wear it any longer, so I look like I have a bicycle tire around my waist from the fluid that didn't dissipate and just changed location but it's nothing drastic and may go away on it's own eventually. Certainly doesn't need to be manually drained.

I didn't do rehab - went straight home after 3 days in the hospital. Of course I had all the "normal" restrictions,, and doc encouraged me to walk-walk-walk. No PT or OT thank goodness, since I had that for months and after being in rehab for 2 weeks, after the cervical spine surgery in 2006 - The Year From Hell.

So I'm pretty much back to normal, and don't have to see my surgeon again till November. I think I may ask him for a PT order tho, since the strength hasn't come back in my legs, to the point I would like it to be. He left the option of PT up to me - if I wanted it or felt I needed it- and of course I didn't at the time. Looks like I need to change my mind on that one.

Thinking of you,, and hoping you get to go home very soon. Just take it slow and don't overdo when you get there.. Keep me posted on your progress.

{{{Hugs}}} my friend - and Wolfy sends doggie kisses too.

Oh - when you get a minute - go to Cat General and check out my thread of "Squirrel Tails". Had to introduce the kids to PT - finally.

[phesina]

Thanks, Ellie. They pulled the drain itself a few days after, but the incision has still been leaking some at the bottom. The surgeon considered doing a wash Tuesday morning but then decided to discharge me because he thought things looked better that it will be reabsorbed. I'm to see him again Monday, and if it still looks problematic, then he'll do the wash.

I just looked at your Squirrel thread. What sweeties!!!!!

Thanks for your encouragement. I am very depressed right now, to tell you the truth. I'd have to be extremely limited in my activity if I did go home now, but when I see him again I think I'll ask if home health assistance might do the job.

I still have stuff to rearrange and figure out what I'm going to do with, after the massive carpet-replacement job in the apartment which went into the week before the surgery.

I have a few questions for you by PM too, which I'll send as.

Thanks again, Ellie.

Pat