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Bluefox, you're doing the right thing. No one but you will see to the best care for your dad. My father was essentially murdered by the hospital he was in 2-1/2 years ago. He was a healthy, energetic, mentally sharp as a tack 84 year old with a slipped disk in his back because he was on his roof clearing leaves from gutters and over strained his back in the process. In six short weeks following surgery, medicine errors, procedural blunders, staff indifference and staff incompetance ended his life, where he lekely would have had another 10 years. Before surgery he took two meds; a pill for high blood pressure daily, and gout medicine as needed, which was only a few times per year. The hospital had him on 22 different meds at the same time. After researching online, I found many meds that were in direct conflict with other meds he was on. Even with a health care proxy, that my sister and I had to enforce to get him off of hallucenigenic pain meds, it was a daily battle with doctors and nurses. In the end they won the battle and killed my father. I swear that there is a certain age where hopsitals have a secret agenda to eliminate older patients, no matter what there circumstances, or at least put little or no effort into doing the right thing to get them back on their feet. Docs in cahoots with drug companies, poor record keeping, indifferent nursing staff, right hand never knowing what the left hand is doing. Intuitively, you would think a hospital would be the safest place you could be, but in fact, it's the most dangerous place you could be. The shorter the stay that is necessary, the better. The family must hold a constant vigil to do what the staff should be doing. It's downright criminal in my opinion. Don't get me started.... Bluefox, hang in there and continue to do the right thing as you are. You will never regret it. (sorry for the rant, this would have been better in the forum, but I wanted to reply to bluefox and dragging up these horrible memories touched a nerve)