More on the accident. Dad was discharged on the 10th of September. For sometime it was me and my brother taking care. But we needed someone to be there with him round the clock.
So I started looking out at agencies who would be able to supply a male attendant.
Most of the calls I made to agencies said they did not have people available. The others came, saw my dad, said they will send someone and then that was it.
Then thanks to Internet and Google, I found an agency called RightCare. They said they had a person available who would be able to come from 18th. That was the day when my brother left for Delhi.
The attendant came in the afternoon, a young boy.
He was there with us for a month.
And that was the time when my maid/ cook was also away. Her husband was having a surgery done. So I had to take charge. Juggling between working from home and office, cooking, cleaning - it was hectic.
Getting my dad on his feet was something. The first day he touched the walker, he said he was giddy. It took him a few days to get up from the bed and even stand holding the walker.
It took him over a month to get adjusted to the walker. The walker with physiotherapy helped.
The doctor told him, leave the walker. So in two months from the accident, after consulting the physiotherapist, I got a stick with four prongs. The piece that was delivered was defective. I had got it from an online store and I was told, they would refund the money.
I ordered another one, with three prongs.
When that came, Dad was reluctant to use that. Slowly, over a month, he got used to the walker and was able to get and walk about with that.
Around November, the doctor saw him and said this was going to be his last visit. Also, he asked Dad to slowly leave the walker also.
Today, Dad tries to walk around without any support, inside the house and takes the walker when we step out.
Good progress for a person who is over eighty four. Wonder what I will be like at that age.
So I started looking out at agencies who would be able to supply a male attendant.
Most of the calls I made to agencies said they did not have people available. The others came, saw my dad, said they will send someone and then that was it.
Then thanks to Internet and Google, I found an agency called RightCare. They said they had a person available who would be able to come from 18th. That was the day when my brother left for Delhi.
The attendant came in the afternoon, a young boy.
He was there with us for a month.
And that was the time when my maid/ cook was also away. Her husband was having a surgery done. So I had to take charge. Juggling between working from home and office, cooking, cleaning - it was hectic.
Getting my dad on his feet was something. The first day he touched the walker, he said he was giddy. It took him a few days to get up from the bed and even stand holding the walker.
It took him over a month to get adjusted to the walker. The walker with physiotherapy helped.
The doctor told him, leave the walker. So in two months from the accident, after consulting the physiotherapist, I got a stick with four prongs. The piece that was delivered was defective. I had got it from an online store and I was told, they would refund the money.
I ordered another one, with three prongs.
When that came, Dad was reluctant to use that. Slowly, over a month, he got used to the walker and was able to get and walk about with that.
Around November, the doctor saw him and said this was going to be his last visit. Also, he asked Dad to slowly leave the walker also.
Today, Dad tries to walk around without any support, inside the house and takes the walker when we step out.
Good progress for a person who is over eighty four. Wonder what I will be like at that age.
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