On the ward at kununurra hospital we have a 7 month old girl admitted a month ago due to failure to thrive and severe malnutrition. Since she has been on the ward, her mother went AWOL and she was left in the care of the nurses (please note baby was still being breast fed)
On physiotherapy assessment, her AIMS is terrible, she has a score well below the 5th percentile and is still struggling to stay in prone (keeps rolling onto her back). Were trying to improve her function and get her mother involved in her treatment (ie. different play positions, vestibular input) but shes a severe alcoholic!!!! so where do we go from here.
she is currently nearing discharge but has no where to go. Her mother is unfit, so she may go to her aunt - who has 4 kids of her own of which none are that healthy. What chance has this poor kid got that anyone will follow any form of physio regime.
And the worst part is - she's adorable!!! you cant help but love her and feel so so sorry for her. but there is so little we can do!
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yeah, that's a tough one. I had an out pt that was drunk and she said that she was going to pick her kids up after the session. It was so hard because I couldn't tell her that she couln't (esp as a student) but what she was doing was obviously illegal.
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