Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Challenging patient

While we were at Good Shepherd this afternoon Andie and I ran into Sam Miranda, the Chief Nursing Officer. He knew Andie from one of the restaurants she ran and had been in to see her six times while she was inthe Rehab Hospital - she only remembered one of those times. While he visited it was early in her recovery so Andie was explaining to him that she had strange dreams and that she doesn't even know what she said to anyone or how she was acting and he mentioned that she had indeed been a "challenging" patient. When he visited she knew that someone was with Mr. Miranda but couldn't remember who it was. He told her it was Sally Gammon, the President and CEO of Good Shepherd. He could see that we were on our way to the 4th floor to see her former nurses and to see if her former roommate was still there. Roommate was gone, good for her, the nurses seemed thrilled to see her and happy with her progress. The case manager said she'd had a case review with the insurance company just yesterday and even the insurance rep was amazed at the amount of progress she's made in such a short time.

While we were at speech therapy she was supposed to be coming up with sentences when asked about a situation in most cases she did well but there were some funny ones. When asked why we keep wild animals in cages she said "So we don't bite them". When asked about why kids need new shoes every year she said " because they're growing their feet" she did correct herself once she had time to think about what she'd just said.

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