Good luck to you and your mom. She should keep up the rehab and PT. It's different but fwiw I had a brain injury in a car accident and couldn't read for 6 weeks, writing by hand was hard, at 6 months there was a jump and it did take a year to regain full function or what full ended up being. I got an SM from MIT 3 years after the accident.

I'm going through this now and will report back. Parent, 89, about to be discharged to acute rehab from hospital. PEG tube was inserted as hospital team said rehab would be productive and the acute rehab mostly requires for admission if there is dysphagia. I am skeptical but there have been visible improvements in the last two days.

6 months is the threshold I've heard for most post-stroke recovery.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think that's true at all about the 5 - 7 days. My 81-year-old mother had a stroke a few months ago and was in terrible shape 5 - 7 days after. Couldn't move or eat, could hardly talk. But now after several months she is walking with a walker, talking, eating, etc. I've heard it takes 6 months to see about where they will recover to. That seems true for her, as she's still improving after 4 months. Definitely make sure your mother has therapy every day, it really makes a difference, and so does recovery time.

OP here - thanks for that actually. I had been kind of stressing about this 5 to 7 day thing. I realize everybody is different and they are no guarantees. My mom is now eight days out with little change although she really only started her serious rehab yesterday. The neurologist told us that the three month mark is where you have a sense of what kinds of functioning will be regained and the six month mark is where you see what the full extent the recovery is likely to be. We are obviously at the beginning of the process so don’t know about hers but really glad to hear your mom doing so much better.

I don't think that's true at all about the 5 - 7 days. My 81-year-old mother had a stroke a few months ago and was in terrible shape 5 - 7 days after. Couldn't move or eat, could hardly talk. But now after several months she is walking with a walker, talking, eating, etc. I've heard it takes 6 months to see about where they will recover to. That seems true for her, as she's still improving after 4 months. Definitely make sure your mother has therapy every day, it really makes a difference, and so does recovery time.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh 82 is pretty old. Does she actually want rehab or do the drs want it to bill insurance? I'd figure that out first.

The doctors who recommend rehab do not earn money from the rehab. And some 82 year olds are still in good health prior to crises such as these.

a dr does not earn money from a patient going to rehab. Rehab discharges are actually a burden to hospitals when you look at finances as many patients are medically ready for discharge but cant leave bc there isnt a rehab bed open, and they end up taking up a bed that could be bringing in much more for the hospital. Doctors / hospitals prefer patients to go home