The Rehabilitation Center at Sandalwood

I was sent to Sandalwood Rehabilitation Center for over a month, this Rehabilitation Center is not a true Rehabilitation Center at all, it is not a good place for the patients waiting for the rehabilitation personal to help them recover from whatever they were before they came to Sandalwood. My feet and legs were very swollen from water retainment I could not stand or walk because of the pain in my feet and lower legs. When they did come they did some fairly simple work with me, slide in and out of bed on a table extender, do some simple games with cards and plastic glasses, up and downstairs, walking with my walker for over thirty yards stopping for a very short time then moving on. Michelle was the person who tried to exercise my brain, I'm 78 years old, plus I have Meniere’s disease and I'm deaf in my left ear so I depend on reading lips, this is something I need to do to understand what people are saying, Michelle would not let me read lips, now how was I going to do play her stupid mind games without reading her lips???. It is not possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At Sandalwood rehabilitation center, some of the staff are offensive others are great, they gave me stool softeners every day then wondered why I need to poop a couple of times a day???, plus so many pills, I have never taken so many pills ever in my life, why I asked?, all they said was I needed them to improve my condition and the red syrup was the worst fluid I have ever taken ever, I started to refuse it after a while. The dining room staff is top shelf, each and every one of them gave me excellent service, they went out of their way to get mashed potatoes with gravy which the nutritionist told me that this was the best food I could eat with my current condition to improve. Sandalwood is like a prison without bars, you are confined to a cell/room until someone can come and help a person pee or poop, my legs were so swollen from water retainment I could not stand alone or even with a walker as I had gained 30 pounds in water alone. The only way I got better was to help myself, use my waker get to pee or poop. They insisted on one of their personal to be there to help if needed, they would scold me for doing things be by myself which was often because as I stated before I would have not gotten better if I had to wait for someone to help me which would a very long time that I would pee on the floor which made them angry but when you have to pee and can't hold it anymore, then just pee. It was also very hard to get an attendant or a nurse, some of the nurses and attendants were very good, others not good at all. Avanti is one of the better attendants, he made me a sandwich when I first arrived because when they moved me from the hospital my dinner order had not arrived yet, he would help me more than the others would in many different areas. Maryann the student I learned more with her because she would whatever I asked her to do, she was just a wonderful person. Mo and the woman with tattoos behind her ears, plus Dawn were very good attendants, Dawn would make me get up and do things the other attendants wouldn't let me do. The battery power patient lift they have at Sandalwood is a terrible machine, I had to hold on with both handles while one of the personal would lift me up and stretch my back to its limits, I have 6, 3, and 1/2 inch stainless steel screws in my lower back, the host would make me almost cry with pain. Sharon was the worst of them all, she complained about me all the time, she wanted me to get up and go the bathroom alone, all she would do is complain about me and my condition, I needed to pee then she walked out leaving me alone to pee in my bed??, this made no sense to me whatsoever, Avanti was a good attendant and come in to help me get cleaned up and change my bedding. Sharon did give me a shower but again I had to stand up by myself while washing my body all over especially my butt and my feet were very hard to do, I could not reach my feet because my feet were so swollen from water retainment and she would not help me wash my feet. This rehabilitation center is clearly overstaffed and the staff would have a meeting every morning and complain about everyone where they were improving or not. One of the main personal was Trish, she asked me if they wanted to feed through a tube, I aid no, later I understood what she meant, I believe all the pills they were giving me were making me worst instead of better??????? (((I aged at least 10 years during my stay there.))) As I stated before the rehabilitation center is overstaffed, on the day I choose to be discharged 4 women came into my room that I had never seen before and tried to get me to stay four more days, I said "NO".I feel this was to inflate my bill which was paid by Medicare. I had to leave before a certain date of having a co-pay of $400 a day.