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toughlovin
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Well this has been one stressful week what with my dad being ill and my son being in a tx place he hates... I can't' remember if I updated you all on this saga that is our health care system!!! Anyway my son was discharged from one hospital to a residential substance abuse place but really I feel like they just wanted to discharge him somewhere rather than finding him good quality rehab... the place he want to he hated and he felt like it was really for detox which he didn't need. I saw him there today and really it was a very depressing place. He is being discharged from there on Monday.....
So this past week while I was out visiting my dad and talking to the social workers I was almost beside myself because it seemed like we were getting nowhere and they were going to end up discharging him to the street.... honestly how would that help him?? Here he is trying to get help and he is not getting it. Now I am sure he had an attitude at this place which did not help either.
If I hadn't been there to advocate and push for him he would have totally fallen through the cracks!! I finally called the sober house he had been in before out of state to see if they could suggest anything. They are great people and care about my son.
So they told me about a rehab where they are and I ended up talking to them, they talked to the insurance and it will get covered...... This sounds like a good quality program and they work with a lot of young adults his age. So my son is getting discharged Monday and I am taking him to the airport and he will fly to the other place.
My son still wants help. We left the decision up to him... he was the first to suggest to me he might be willng to go back to that area... but we let him know we would help him in either place.
I saw him today and asked him how he felt about it.... and he is nervous but he said, I know it is what i need. It is like ripping off a bandaid, I just have to do it.
He looked worse today than he did a week ago... which bugs me Occupational Therapist (OT) all get out... how can you have another week of supposed tx and look worse???
Anyway he has hung in there and he still wants help and all that is good. And my dad is doing better so I am hoping to have a calmer week after Monday.
TL
So this past week while I was out visiting my dad and talking to the social workers I was almost beside myself because it seemed like we were getting nowhere and they were going to end up discharging him to the street.... honestly how would that help him?? Here he is trying to get help and he is not getting it. Now I am sure he had an attitude at this place which did not help either.
If I hadn't been there to advocate and push for him he would have totally fallen through the cracks!! I finally called the sober house he had been in before out of state to see if they could suggest anything. They are great people and care about my son.
So they told me about a rehab where they are and I ended up talking to them, they talked to the insurance and it will get covered...... This sounds like a good quality program and they work with a lot of young adults his age. So my son is getting discharged Monday and I am taking him to the airport and he will fly to the other place.
My son still wants help. We left the decision up to him... he was the first to suggest to me he might be willng to go back to that area... but we let him know we would help him in either place.
I saw him today and asked him how he felt about it.... and he is nervous but he said, I know it is what i need. It is like ripping off a bandaid, I just have to do it.
He looked worse today than he did a week ago... which bugs me Occupational Therapist (OT) all get out... how can you have another week of supposed tx and look worse???
Anyway he has hung in there and he still wants help and all that is good. And my dad is doing better so I am hoping to have a calmer week after Monday.
TL