Better day

Kristan says today was a better day. They chopped the highs and lows off the pain curve, and kept it sorta level. The MD and OT are still at odds, over whether or not she can have rehab in the hospital. At first we were told that she might not qualify, because she was too weak to stick it out through three hours of rehab every day. Now she's hearing that the OT thinks she's doing too well, and qualifies to go straight home. The doc and we are very concerned that she will hurt herself, with all the transfers required, once she gets home. In the hospital, going to dialysis means wheeling the bed over to the other side of the building and back, which is much safer, than transferring from bed to her scooter, to the car, to a wheelchair, to the dialysis chair, to a wheelchair, to the car, to her scooter, and finally back to bed. Eight transfers, versus none, seems a lot safer to us. "Can't win for losing." — at Swedish Hospital.