Re: medical benefits
BUNDYRHYME(AT)aol.com
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
Katie has been granted a 60 day stay at a level one rehabilitation facility,
the University of Washington, where she will receive fairly intensive
rehabilitation services. After that she will be transfered to a less intense
facility. Our concerns are two fold. From what we have heard about the
return of lost functions it appears imperative that rehabilitation services
be intense, and on-going. It is cost effective in my estimation to do
everything possible to recapture lost capacity. Even a level one facility
fails to utilize every strategy available. Of course cost is the argument,
but then cost always is. But it is not a humanitarian argument. It is the
argument of power and profit. In matters of this sort the question should
not be how will we pay it, the question ought to be what can we do? There
will always be limits. Our job, it to push those limits back. To that end
I need to know the best that people have received so I can use it as
ammunition to demand what we need. I am interested in alternative
approaches, massage therapy, acupuncture in addition to conventional
approaches.