The doctor recommended a skilled nursing facility. The nursing home that I found does not feature that level of care. The doctor listed four possibilities. None however will accept insurance for care that is long term and not rehabilitative. So we are stuck in limbo land between rehab and hospice, with the need to get her in a facility where her pain can be managed as soon as possible. The pain is to be controlled with the same pain reliever that she has been on, a narcotic that makes her sleepy. The doctor wrote a requisition for a back x-ray, conjecturing that because of the sudden onset of the pain, it could be cancer. I have a call into the doctor for clarification. It is nearly impossible to take a bedridden person to an appointment for an x-ray.
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