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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
My father's been in the rehab center for just over a week now. And it's a bit of a disappointment. He gets physical therapy three times a week. Which consists of walking up and down the stairs several times, riding on an exercise bike for five minutes and a couple of other exercises.
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Tomorrow my sister is joining him for a consultation with the doctor. He wants to go home ASAP, the rehab center was aiming for around the 15th. My father's physical therapist tempered his expectations, because although he's had to great days earlier in the week, and before that, he regularly had one or two bad days. Where he felt nauseous and dizzy. So he might have to stay longer than he wants to make sure he is consistently feeling good.
It's true that at home he'll be doing more; making his own breakfast and lunch, getting his own drinks, etc. But I'm afraid when he gets home he doesn't do his exercises. That happened with the physical therapy he got for his knee; he just didn't do his homework exercises. So I'm hoping that when he is allowed to go home he will have to continue to work with a physical therapist several times a week, that way he will at least get some exercise even if he doesn't do what is prescribed.
I'm also afraid that when he gets home he will just sit behind his computer and not help out. I told my mother that I want him to help out whilst I'm running the store on my own. I don't expect him to do any heavy chores, at least not when he is still healing and getting his strength back. But little things and making my parents' bed, making my mother coffee in the morning, feeding the cats and putting on dinner are not too much to ask I think. But I'm afraid that's wishful thinking.
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In other words; I'm feeling stressed about the whole situation at the moment.
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Can you be SURE of a visiting nurse or therapist? When we had a very similar situation with my sister, she had a visiting therapist, who made SURE, for months, that she did her therapy not less than 2x weekly and she demanded that my sister keep and give her a journal of her exercises and therapy movements. It kept her going. Perhaps something like that could work on your dad, since apparently, wifely and daughterly nagging appears not to work?
Hitch