Your father was discharged on Tuesday. The hospital discharge paperwork is somewhere on the kitchen counter; four new pill bottles were not there last week, and the nurse said something…
Your father sits on the edge of his bed in his Orland Park, IL home for a full five minutes most mornings before he tries to stand. His knees don't…
The nurse is coming Thursday morning. You've spent the last twenty minutes walking through your mother's house in Orland Park, IL, looking at it differently than you have in years,…
The doorbell rings right on time, and your mom, sitting in her recliner in her home in Orland Park, IL, straightens up a little, half nervous and half relieved. She's…
Your mother finished her third round of chemo two days ago. She's sitting at the kitchen table in Orland Park, staring at a plate of food she can't make herself…
Our mom's hands have trembled for a couple of years, and you had adjusted to that. What you did not expect was the morning she froze in the hallway of…
Your mother is being discharged from a hospital tomorrow, and the case manager mentions home health almost in passing. You nod, then get to the parking lot and realize you…
The discharge nurse at the hospital says your mother qualifies for home health, hands you a list of agencies, and moves on to the next room. You are left holding…
You are comparing three home health agencies for your mom's discharge from a Chicago area hospital. Their websites look similar, the phone reps all sound kind, and you are trying…
Your mom came home from the hospital in Palos Heights with a surgical incision, a bag of gauze, and instructions that made sense in the room but not at her…
