Dad is finding it a new and delightful experience to have nursing home staff actually do what he asks them to do. Even moreso that they ask him his wants and needs, and actually accede to them. They wanted to put him on a strict diabetic diet with fluid restriction (the latter the other facility said they had him on, but didn't). He declined, so they just had him sign a waiver and he was off all restrictions. Pow!
I didn't do a very good job of showing him how to use the cell phone, so he's probably effectively still phoneless, but if he asks them, they'll probably help him with that, too. Or in the worst case I'll walk him through it better tomorrow.
Of course, now I'm beating myself up doubly hard for not sending him here in the first place. How different might everything be? Still, the other place did a good job on the physical therapy and more or less kept up with his daily needs. Anyway, they weren't quite criminally negligent. But oh I feel like an idiot about now.
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