Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation, SanStone Health and Rehabilitation, Dr. Larry Joe Russell, Mike Deloach, Christopher Sprenger, and NCDHHS.
October 19,2011, two years ago today. I had never heard of Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation, or SanStone, until then. Mom was admitted in the late afternoon that day. She was transferred from Mission Hospital, via Arc' Angel Ambulance.
My sister was with her when I arrived. A CNA came into the room and took Mom's vital signs and asked us some questions. The whole family was feeling upbeat, after all she had been through, she was finally out of the hospital.
Sitting in the room visiting that first day was somewhat eerie. There was someone across the hall that, was moaning, and kept calling for "Jenny". Mom was tired from the move, she ate a little dinner, and everyone left her to rest, for the night. Everyone except my oldest sister, she had been spending the nights in Mom's room for a while, and that night would be no different.
The next day Mom was supposedly seen by Dr. Larry Joe Russell. Someone was with her the whole day, and no one ever saw Dr. Russell. She seemed to be adjusting to her surroundings, and determined to get well enough to go home. It was nice having Mom so close to my work. I would visit each morning, with a cup of coffee and red grapefruit. Mom would have already had breakfast. The tray would still be in the room, and there would be food all over the bed and floor. Mom was not able to see her food, and it would end up everywhere. She would always tell me that she did not get what she had ordered. We would talk for a while, and Mom would pull the call light, for help going to the bathroom. She was not supposed to get up without at least one person to assist. We would wait a while and I would eventually help her to the bathroom, then I would have to go find someone to help her out of the bathroom. Some days,the call light would be on for ten minutes or more, and I still had to go find someone to help. Mom was fortunate enough to have visitors all day, to help her as needed, I can only imagine how bad it would have been if she hadn't. For the first time since her surgery on September 7, things were looking up!
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