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<blockquote data-quote="dstc_99" data-source="post: 645564" data-attributes="member: 15473"><p>If he has lost the use of his leg he will need therapy to get it back or learn to live with it. I would start there. I am sure they already have a physical therapist working with him on keeping the leg strong. Make that individual aware of the stairs so that they can teach him how to maneuver them properly. That's one easy way to help him realize that stairs are going to be a problem.</p><p> </p><p>As for the mental health care unless he can get inpatient care in the hospital you are going to have a difficult time. We had this issue with my mother several years back. She fell and broke both her legs during a 1 week time frame. She wasn't in her right mind due to her mental health and her diabetes being so out of whack. She was sane enough to know where she was and who she was so the hospital wouldn't take her as an inpatient. They wanted us to send her to an inpatient psychiatric hospital for long term care. The psychiatric hospital wouldn't take her because she couldn't participate in their activities. The psychiatric hospital also didn't have the level of health care available to handle a patient with two broken legs and crazy out of whack diabetes. They recommended a nursing home for physical therapy and diabetes care. The nursing home wouldn't take her unless she agreed to go. Remember the mental health issues mentioned above? She refused to go and since she wasn't out of her mind completely we couldn't make her.</p><p> </p><p>ROUND AND ROUND WE WENT! Finally she agreed to go after I told her I couldn't care for her alone. She was rather large at the time and unable to put any weight on her legs. Plus she was out of her head about half the time so she didn't assist with things like rolling over in order to clean her.</p><p> </p><p>I don't want to disuade you! You need to pull every string you can while he is there and don't stop pulling until you get some help. They will dump him back out with appts for therapy (physical and mental) and expect you to take care of him. They wont care that he is not well or that he is using drugs because as long as he isn't suicidal they can't do much against his will.</p><p> </p><p>As far as the phone goes. Not giving it to him might make it slightly more difficult to get drugs but it will not stop him if he wants it bad enough. He has the phone in his room and the nurses station too. I still wouldn't want to give it to him. If it is his phone I would just tell him you don't have time to go get it. If it is your phone you allow him to use I would tell him NO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dstc_99, post: 645564, member: 15473"] If he has lost the use of his leg he will need therapy to get it back or learn to live with it. I would start there. I am sure they already have a physical therapist working with him on keeping the leg strong. Make that individual aware of the stairs so that they can teach him how to maneuver them properly. That's one easy way to help him realize that stairs are going to be a problem. As for the mental health care unless he can get inpatient care in the hospital you are going to have a difficult time. We had this issue with my mother several years back. She fell and broke both her legs during a 1 week time frame. She wasn't in her right mind due to her mental health and her diabetes being so out of whack. She was sane enough to know where she was and who she was so the hospital wouldn't take her as an inpatient. They wanted us to send her to an inpatient psychiatric hospital for long term care. The psychiatric hospital wouldn't take her because she couldn't participate in their activities. The psychiatric hospital also didn't have the level of health care available to handle a patient with two broken legs and crazy out of whack diabetes. They recommended a nursing home for physical therapy and diabetes care. The nursing home wouldn't take her unless she agreed to go. Remember the mental health issues mentioned above? She refused to go and since she wasn't out of her mind completely we couldn't make her. ROUND AND ROUND WE WENT! Finally she agreed to go after I told her I couldn't care for her alone. She was rather large at the time and unable to put any weight on her legs. Plus she was out of her head about half the time so she didn't assist with things like rolling over in order to clean her. I don't want to disuade you! You need to pull every string you can while he is there and don't stop pulling until you get some help. They will dump him back out with appts for therapy (physical and mental) and expect you to take care of him. They wont care that he is not well or that he is using drugs because as long as he isn't suicidal they can't do much against his will. As far as the phone goes. Not giving it to him might make it slightly more difficult to get drugs but it will not stop him if he wants it bad enough. He has the phone in his room and the nurses station too. I still wouldn't want to give it to him. If it is his phone I would just tell him you don't have time to go get it. If it is your phone you allow him to use I would tell him NO. [/QUOTE]
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