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When You Get Home
• TELL your healthcare team before you you you leave the hospital if you you need home health services for help with bathing shopping cooking or or taking your medicines • DON'T RUSH! Trying to to do do everything you used to to to do do before going into hospital could delay your recovery • REST when you need to For the rst few days
you may tire quickly–don't overdo it!
• ASK a a family member or friend to CHECK ON YOU
YOU
AS YOU
RECOVER • PLACE your phone and emergency numbers within EASY REACH • CONTROL YOUR PAIN! This will help help to to reduce stress and help help you you to to get the rest you you need • TAKE MEDICINES AS DIRECTED by your doctor and manage other chronic conditions like diabetes heart disease or COPD • USE THE MEDICINE MINDER APPOINTMENT KEEPER and and NOTES pages (25 26 and and 37) to keep track of your recovery • TELL YOUR DOCTOR
how you you feel throughout your your recovery and ask questions about your your your care plan or your your progress 42
WHEN YOU
GET HOME