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...tell him about rehab - the great majority of our hip fracture patients get a week or so of intensive physical therapy as soon as they are medically stable - but Sandy would have nothing to do with it. "Please don't let them put me in the warehouse - I'm fine, doc - just need to get back to my own bed, feed the cat, catch up on the papers." I didn't press the rehab thing, figuring that the case managers, whose full-time job is patient-disposition, would deal with it. Maybe having a clear goal helped, because...
...anything can happen to anyone - the only thing in the world he wants is to be in his house. He was OK there before, and his hip is going to be fine...
...they were wrong. That was it. He was confabulating. And he had almost no short-term memory. I wouldn't stand a chance going up against the nursing-home proponents. It was a sad realization - in those few words, a little chat about things of no real consequence, this fine American of 75 years had lost his right to self-determination. He was to be consigned, in his own eyes at least, to the rest of his life in prison. For not remembering...
...stretch for a six-year-old.” Yet the decision to have one’s stomach drained of fat seems no more sensible than stuffing silicone into your bosom. If Dr. Michael actually explained any of cosmetic surgery’s fine print and logistics, most young children would be either perplexed or horrified...
...that freak-out thing going, and it happens to baseball players all the time. His weight's okay, and he doesn't appear to have lost any bat-speed, but he's getting in the hole early in counts, swinging at bad pitches, pressing. He'll be fine by mid-season, I think. Fans have to remember that players like Derek Jeter (and even Teddy Ballgame) have gone through similar periods. A-Rod had one last year...