The social worker at Lowman Home called to say that because Dad was no longer making progress in physical therapy, he would no longer be covered by Medicare A. Who cares?, I thought, we can afford to pay, but apparently the rehab area is only for Medicare A patients. Or anyway he has to move, and it can't be due to crush of business, because there are quite a few empty rooms just in his section.
I'm puzzled because she says he hasn't made progress in weeks, whereas less than a week ago we had the care meeting and the physical therapists were praising him for his progress. Still, I suppose it's a matter of semantics. The overarching point is that he just hasn't got any stamina, and attempts to build it up don't appear to be working.
So tomorrow we go to look at a private room, which I'm told is very nice, and talk about money, which I suspect isn't. As a piece of news, it's meaningless by itself; rather, the question is how does he take it? If he regards this as the facility giving up on him and he gives up on himself, it's bad news. If he regards it as a challenge and rededicates himself to recovery (like he did 3 years ago) then it's good news. Then "Any day without physical therapy is a wasted day" was his motto. We sure hope to hear it again.
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