MAN!

We found out yesterday that insurance has screwed him YET AGAIN!! here is the scenerio:

Dad was no longer, according to the insurance company, needed in ICU. Although he had that brain infection that no one wanted to persue, he was admitted to RML. He was so sick at RML it took a good few weeks to get whatever it was growing in his brain to get under control, to where he could start really being weaned from the ventilator. Well, guess what?? RML is an ACUTE long term facility, which we were never told, so he had an insurance goal of 35 days. Because he is medically stable now, his wound is healing, he no longer meets the requirements to be at RML. So, basically, because he was kicked out of Rush, not yet ready to go to RML, we wasted most of his 35 days there trying to get him well enough to be weaned and didn't make that goal. So, out we go.

We are now in search of a SUBACUTE, long term care facility that will wean and still provide great care/wound care. The only place we have found so far is Fleur Heights in Des Moines. Scott and I are going to check it out tomorrow.

It will be nice to get him back to Des Moines where we ALL can better watch over him. Even just for his mental state it will be better. He is very depressed.

I will have more information tomorrow.