What do people do when they'll be laid-up after an operation but

[Gidney N Cloyd]

they don't have anyone, for all practical purposes, to take care of them?

Do most HMO's pay for some sort of home care? Do you go someplace like a nursing home to recover?

[siligut]

1. Depends

Your doc can order homecare or you may go to a short stay place that offers help with ADLs (activities of daily living) but not skilled medical procedures. Good luck.

[MissMillie]

2. sometimes the hospital social worker can help set up something

It may be that the doctor has to ask for the social worker to come and talk to the patient and the patient's family.

[supernova]

3. CHeck your bennies

You might be eligible for a nursing visit or an aid for a short time if it's for major surgery.

Day surgery? Probably not.

How "laid up" are you expecting to be?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Not sure how laid up. I'm thinking heart bypass so whatever that amounts to.

It may turn out to be nothing.

[supernova]

5. Ah well,

Heart surgery can really wipe you out.

Seriously, think about asking someone, a friend -- anybody, to stay with you when you get home. You will need more than just a daily 10 min nursing visit.

If that turns out to be the case.

:hug:

[siligut]

6. Hope it is nothing!

Anymore the procedure of choice for cardiac arteries is stent placement. They go through an artery and that is the only cut you get. Again, good luck, the success rate is very high.