The feisty MoFo ROARS back! Dad is moving from the ICU tomorrow!!!

[LaydeeBug]

Bills are starting to arrive. It is v v v v v scary. He still needs a lot of care. Nevertheless I want him home. I might have to hire nurses.

I might need a hospital bed at first. I don't care.

I want him *home*.

While he has been in the hospital, I have redone the bathroom, gutted his room to studs and redone it (the floors get refinished tomorrow). I still need to do the living room and my room and I want to get most of that done before he gets home so the dust can be settled.

I will need equipment that will become a part of his life forever. A cpap machine, oxygen and a suction machine.

I'm good with that.

Enough is enough already.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good luck to you, my dear LaydeeBug!

I hope everything works out the way you want it to.

[renate]

2. Wow, that's ambitious!

How stressful, to have done all that work and remodeling while worrying about your dad in the hospital. You are very efficient and very impressive!

Good luck to you both!

[malaise]

3. Home is the best place if you get a good nurse

[okaawhatever]

4. That is so good to hear. Remeber, don't give any of your dad's couches to godwill while

he's in the hospital.

[TBF]

5. My FIL wanted to stay at home -

we were able to hire attendants, and eventually we had a nurse come in and hospice. It can be done. Glad to hear he's doing better.

[jwirr]

6. I take it he has no insurance. If he does then they will often pay for equipment to keep him in the

home. If he has Medicare then he is at risk of more expensive placement (a nursing home) and they then have what they call a waiver which will provide many of the things you will need for in home care.

That is one of the things that helped me take care of my daughter. Your local social services has a lot to offer care givers who are taking care of either a child or a senior. Talk to them - you can always say no thanks.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Great that he's getting out

He must be doing well. Good news!

[Dragonfli]

8. I am so glad to hear that LaydeeBug!

The best place for anyone to be is at home with loving family.

[DesertDiamond]

9. I'd give anything to have that with my dad, or my mom, but they've already passed. You are so lucky.

[Omaha Steve]

10. To Dad

[LaydeeBug]

11. shit!!! they might have to intibate tonight. g-d it. nt