@Jaycey not yet but God has been sending exactly the right people at exactly the right times today, and so we are not doing rehab, we are doing a combo of 24/7 care (that we'll engage) plus home health, with the same agency that does our hospice, at Mom's place! Hopefully she will remember the love there, which will certainly aid the healing/recovery mountain's reduction.
While bro was here, OS PA came in. "It all looks like it should". Emphasized 90 degree rule. Very good circulation in op side foot. Incision looks good. Says, the proof will be in the pudding, as in, how well she responds to PT today and tomorrow. Was encouraging about our choice to have done this. Bro writes, he sounded an awful lot like we did yesterday (trying to decide, he, sis, and I).
Also with bro, PT came in. Did not go well. Mom an anxious demented very elderly lady at the best of times! And her body often does the opposite of what you ask. Or she doesn't understand what was asked, or did but it doesn't get to the movement part of the brain correctly. Or she's getting Parkinson's. Who knows. They will try again tomorrow, and OT will coordinate with them so Mom only gets worked up once. .
We saw OT but Mom was asleep. She seemed very perspicacious and helped us a great deal. Therapy team's criterion for discharge is, that Mom be a one-person transfer to chair or commode, or higher functioning. Since we ALL know that walking is all Mom needs for rehab anyway, and she will relearn that by doing it at home, we are good. All her ADLs that she can't do are managed at her place as needed. OT said it's her experience that the second day is usually better for the patient. That is not necessarily how I remember it in the pain department, but surely clearing out the GA for 24 more hours will be good.
Thanks all for circling round the wagons for me! I don't see this going over well on my dementia forum