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Good to hear! My home healthcare worker was supposed to coordinate my p/t but she did not as she did not know that I was going to have to use a walker for six weeks. She thought that it should have been 4 weeks. She actually asked me to ask my surgeon to make a change from 6 weeks to 4 weeks. Of course when I asked I was told that I required the full six weeks. Long story short she never coordinated the outside p/t and we only found out later on that it was HER job to do that. When we called the p/t place we were told that we had to wait almost a month. I figured they were busy and I did not question it. When I had my first appointment for the evaluation I told the p/t that I felt as though I was way behind in my progress because I could not get an appointment sooner. She got a bit upset and said that their surgery patients were usually given appointments right away. She went to the registration desk and all of a sudden there were MANY openings that were available. How could that be? I lost faith in the entire process from the get go. My doctor, home healthcare worker and p/t we’re all part of the hospital and therefore they were all supposed to be on the same page. I’m tired of falling through the cracks and thank goodness I was doing my home p/t every single day so I wasn’t as much behind in my progress as I might have been. As they say “ you don’t know what you don’t know”. I was angry because the whole process involving p/t did not go as it should have as more than one person dropped the ball and I paid the price for it.