Mom kissing baby J. Ashton, John and Mom on New Year's Day, Mom and the kids New Year's Eve opening mom's Christmas presents.....

It has been a rough couple of days for us...John

and I went to look at "rehab" centers (nursing homes) for mom to go to when she is discharged from the hospital. The first one we looked at was AWFUL!!! It was dark and gloomy. The person that helped us was nice enough but it was not good at all! I was crying by the time we left!! They told us that medicaid no longer covers therapy...thanks to budget cuts by our governor...but that is another topic for another day...anyway, the rehab places have worked something out in order to still provide these services but she can only be seen for 1/2 hr a day....yes that is right, 1/2 hr a day!!! and that is not all...she can only be seen by one therapy a day, so one day physical therapy will see her and the next day occupational therapy will see her...I have no idea when speech therapy will be able to see her!!! Well we sent to another facility and it was WAY nicer but it was still hard to think that we have to send her to a place like that! So we told the case managers that we like that one and they started with the paper work...since mom is medicaid "pending" the facility won't take her!!! So we were told to look at other places. Let's just face it, I think we are going to have the same problem at the other places we look at and the places that do, are not that great!!! We still have time they say so that might be good! They said that the rehab at the hospital will evaluate mom again and if she is able to tolerate 3 hrs of therapy a day then she can stay there!!!!