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-May-August page 2  Josephine Figueroa Bronx, NY After about a week and a half they sent her over to rehab for their care. The care was good. There was a terrific therapy area with all the gadgets and tools they need. Was she getting adequate attention?…yes and no. She was supposed to get an hour a day and sometimes they'd forget or had other problems…one day she wouldn't go to therapy and the next day they'd come. On the whole they were pretty good. Of course she reached the point of that so-called "plateau" where Medicare doesn't cover it. So they said she had to be transferred to the long-term ward. And I said, "Will she get therapy?" And they said, "Yes and no." Yes in the sense that if the nurses on the floor see any improvement they'll tell therapy. But I knew that the nurses on the floor have so many things to do that they wouldn't notice that she lifted her arm or something like that. So I said, "Bring her home." When she got out of the hospital we brought her back to her home but it couldn't be. Her house was not as comfortable as this house. (My sister disagrees…) Her kitchen was not an eat-in kitchen and the porch couldn't be heated in the winter and also it made it easier for me. I didn't have to be juggling time back and forth. So we brought her here and this is where she's been getting her therapy. But I always expected my life to be what it is now. I'm available for her and that's it. And that's why she's here with me. She's not a burden in any way whatsoever. As a matter of fact, before the stroke I had been thinking of buying a 2-family home - she could have her space and I could have mine because right now two houses are just too much for me. She knows that prior to the stroke I had been looking for a 2-family house. But after this situation I said just forget it. We need to have just the 1-family. And eventually I'll move from this house to a house where she'll have her area and I'll have mine but we'll still be together. That way I don't have to hear a telephone call saying "hey, this or that".   |
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