Posted on 04/12/2024 7:40:56 AM PDT by heartwood
I have a friend mile away who was hit by a drunk in the 90's and left with only very limited physical ability, that of a only a little use of arms, enough to use a elect. wheel chair. He is not a vet ( and has no family that helps, and has been in a cycle for years under state gov. health care, of home PCA's not showing up, and then getting bed sores, resulting in months locked in a nursing home (sometimes the ER first, and sometimes rehab last), then back to his handicapped apt. Rinse and repeat. He loves to get out and about. It is a systemic problem. Yet thank God for the care he can get.
There are lateral rotation beds that do the turns automatically.
My acquaintance with quadriplegia resists getting one but I think it would help.a lot
My relatives who are on Tricare love Tricare but I guess that’s different from VA. And I have heard of people who have had a hard time with Tricare.
GailA can tell you about her experiences with Tricare.
Only 66 but it’s Canada who seems to want to rid itself of the chronically or old. Coming soon to America?
But gov. insurance must agree to pay for it, and it takes a long time just to replace a motor wheelchair. And while providing handicapped apt in 90's, since then he has not been able to move to another where it would be easier to find help. The gov. will pay for drugs for the prevention and treatment of HIV, but being left a quadriplegia due to being hit by a drunk driver? No a PC class. However, thank God that he is in a country that provides what it does.
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