Michael is over 6 feet tall and is too long for the normal hospital bed. Kudos to Select for getting him a longer bed!
The bed has a system of air sacs which inflate and deflate to relieve pressure on the patient's body. This system is very important for the bedridden.
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Michael's Hebrew name is Chaim Michoel Yitzchack ben Esther Vichna. The information on this website is coming directly from Barbara Schwartz. To make comments or send her a note, click on the "comments link".
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- Michael has moved to Spalding in PSL, he is in roo...
- 10 Steps!
- Muscle Function
- Rolling!
- No more Trach!
- How to choose a nursing home or rehab
- How to choose a hospital
- How to find a doctor
- Moving!
- Tube Feedings
- Food Glorious Food!
- Peripheral Line
- Small Steps
- Emails for Barbara
- Caregiver/Prayer
- GR8 Progress!
- Blood sugar
- There is no place like home....
- Shabbat
- Milestones
- As easy as breathing
- Trach Collar
- Ice Chips
- Progress
- Good Day
- Medication
- Muscle and Lung Damage
- 10 PM
- Itty Bitty Bed
- Speech Therapy and the Dietitian
- Dissapointments and Setbacks
- Increased Oxygen Requirements
- Michael is settling in
- Michael transported to PSL
- Moving to another facility
- Eyes
- Sunday Night
- Ready for acute rehab center
- Denver Post: Apathy adds insult to injury
- After Shabbat
- Living Will
- Medical Power of Attorney
- Will
- Medications
- Michael had a good Shabbat.
- Michael continues to progress.
- My Email
- Michael had a great day.
- Thursday morning was so much better than yesterday!
- Michael's status at 11PM
- Terrifying Day
- Physical Therapy
- Michael continues to progress.
- Information
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- It is very important to keep a positive attitude.
- Who can be a patient care advocate in the hospital?
- Michael continues to progress.
- Is Michael's illness cancer related?
- Michael's brother, Will
- Michael's ventilator
- Michael continues to slowly improve.
- Stable This Morning
- Procedures Went Well
- Note from Bonfils Blood Center
- Advice Requested for Intubation or Tracheotomy
- NO2 and Relenza
- Blood Donations
- Surgery Postponed
- Feeding Tube
- Tehillim Needed for Tracheotomy
- Other Organs Are Working
- Removed from Paralytic
- Neuropathy
- Procedure Went Well
- Initial Diagnosis
- No Visitors
- Michael's Hebrew Name
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