Rehabilitation: Going to CMCH

When I came back home from the hospital, I was in a miserable state. I was severely weakened and my body was just a little bit more than skin and bones. I had become so weak that initially even holding my phone up to type a text was quite strenuous. Muscles all over my body had deteriorated to such an extent that I could practically do nothing. This weakness is common for anyone who has been treated for severe trauma. And there is a systematic way to recovery. The solution.. Rehabilitation therapy. 

Daily exercises at home with the help of a therapist was a possible option. But we decided to go to a rehabilitation centre. CMC Hospital in Vellore has one of the best SCI [Spinal Cord Injury] Rehabilitation Institute's [RI] in India. Though most hospitals have physiotherapy units of their own, SCI patients have a lot of specific requirements that not all therapists are used to handling. In CMCH, the therapists work day in and day out with such people, so they are more adept at meeting their needs. 

The time we spent in Vellore was a matter of months. A lot happened at that time, both good and bad. Most of em though weren't as exclusively personal as what I went through in the ICU. You could say much of the events were usual hospital stuff. So instead of really describing the journey in detail, I think it'll be better if I briefly ran through what happened in my stay there and then spoke about all that I gained. As you would expect, there were lessons on how to manage my health and activities on a daily basis. But more importantly, there were lessons for life..

Our stay in CMCH was longer than most others who come for the same purpose. Though we had gone there for the purpose of rehabilitation, we weren't sent to RI immediately after reaching Vellore. We were admitted into CMCH's A-Ward. While we were there, therapy was available. However, it wasn't as intense as we had expected. We received around an hour of therapy each day. While in RI, it was almost like a school with nearly six hours spent solely on physical and mental training. We weren't told about the exact reason was for keeping us waiting in the ward for so long, but after persisting, we were sent to RI by the end of June..