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E014: What a Difference Rehab Makes: From Hospital Bed to Rehab
A month earlier, I was sitting beside my mom’s hospital bed, watching a machine breathe for her and wondering if she was going to make it.
Now?
She was getting ready to leave the hospital.
Not for home. Not yet.
She was heading to long-term care rehab — and for the first time in weeks, it felt like we might actually be moving in the right direction.
But if you’ve learned anything about caregiving, you know better than to assume the hard part is over just because someone is medically cleared for discharge.
Because getting an aging parent out of the hospital is apparently a multi-step process…
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