Rose Update

Rose has not had an easy path post-amputation. She was re-hospitalized with an infection; she was wearing a pump on her leg to assist with circulation the last time I saw her.

She seems to be doing okay emotionally, but her daughter who is her caregiver is really struggling. It is so hard as a child to have to become the parent to your parent – to be the caregiver.

Yesterday I received a call from one of the larger regional hospitals – not the one where she had her surgery – and they were discharging her. I asked why she was there, since her surgery had been done somewhere else. She wasn’t there because of her leg – she had been admitted there with Congestive Heart Failure. Another example of how fragmented our healthcare system has become.