After 80 days in the hospital----Mom goes home on Tuesday!

Apparently, after not even two full weeks of acute rehab, they think my mom is ready to go home. I am driving up on Monday and planning to stay for about 10 days. Her psychosis is completely resolved and I think she may be ready! She is walking 150 feet unaided for the most part, is eating, and even made herself a grilled cheese sandwich. This secretly made me very happy since I don't know how to cook and have been worried about how to feed her She is so very very over being in the hospital---even if she was unconscious for 5 weeks of it.

I can't believe that we are at this point. Of course I am nervous because after her debulking I came up for her discharge home and the day before the discharge she developed the fistula and the pleural effusions. I still picture how I would of handled/panicked had this happened at her home. It would have been 911 because of how far she lives from the hospital and how I would have thought her bowel was perforating. We'd both still be having nightmares. So...I'm apprehensive regarding this visit because it is just me and her and no hospital support this time.

An awesome woman from Hollister medical supply company called me and we talked for an hour about the colostomy and various options with the bag. My 7 year old has type one diabetes and wears an insulin pump---so I feel like I'm pretty confident when it comes to medical supplies/devices. I told Mom there was some much better options than the bag she is wearing in the hospital. I told her it would be so much better---but inside I'm a bit worried about it. One day at a time.

Wendy