No Room In the Inn

Sheila is continuing to improve.  Her blood pressure and other vitals are still improving.  They are slowly reducing the number of medications needed to make her stronger.  She still remains on oxygen but is requiring less than yesterday.

Today we met with another social worker from Davis Hospital.  They are trying to make plans for Sheila for when she is medically able to be discharged from the hospital.  When someone came in to do an assessment on her psychological stability she started screaming at them.  With this behavior, no long term care (LTC) facility will take her.  Our only option is a geropsych facility that deals with behaviors seen in older people who suffer from dimentia or alzheimers.  What they are hoping is that if Sheila's psych meds work and are tweeked she will then be able to return to a regular LTC. 

Right now there are four available geropsych facilities.  They are:

• Laveview Hospital in Boutiful:  They say they cannot continue to treat her medically at their facility.
• Salt Lake Regional Hospital:  They only take older patients so that leaves Sheila out.
• University of Utah Hospital:  They have no beds available but they told the social worker to keep checking each day.
• Salt Lake Behavioral Health:  They wanted to see Sheila's records before they made a decision.  So we are still waiting to hear from them.

So now we are just playing a waiting game to see where she will end up.  Unfortunately, with all these facilities being in Salt Lake City, we will be limited to how often we can visit her.  This will be hard for her as we have not missed a day in seeing her since she enter a nursing home on December 20, 2008.  But hopefully this will only be for a few short weeks until we can get her closer to us here in Ogden. 

We are grateful for the many prayers and well wishes from family and friends which we receive daily.  We will be sharing them with Sheila in the next day or so.