Groundhog Day

My experience of Mom's recent health challenges as a result of her falls is like a way slow version of the movie, Groundhog Day. After her first fall, Mom went to the ER, then to a rehab facility, then to skilled nursing and finally went home. A few days later she fell again and now we're in the exact same pattern. She even had the same ambulance drivers for every move both times - the ones who tell her she's pretty. Mom has been in good ol' rehab for nearly a week now and will be going to the same skilled nursing facility today or tomorrow for who knows how long. The rehab doc says probably one to two weeks. Amazingly, I never took either the rehab place or the SNF out of my cell phone contacts list the first time. Perhaps I should do that immediately after her next discharge from the SNF.

Speaking of SNF - that's jargon in the health care and senior services industry. Everyone here at Silverado Senior Living refers to a skilled nursing facility as "sniff" - that's how it sounds. I finally figured out what people meant by "sniff" - which had nothing to do with coming down with a cold. Now I get to use this catchy term when I speak with Mom's doctors and nurses, which makes me feel very cool (as in savvy, not cold). I love my job.