inpatient rehab centers

hi, i'm sue o'dell, madison'smom. and i'm madi. a typical patient day, i mean, you wake up6:30/7:00, depending on whether or not you want to shower ornot. there are two bathrooms on the unit with showers, so ifthere are multiple girls who are staying overnight, you kind ofhave to share and you get your little time slot. but when youwake up, the nurse comes into your room and takes your vitals,and then you do weight and stuff. but after that, you'refree to kind of do what you please until it's breakfasttime. so, shower, get ready, get

changed. sometimes we wouldwatch tv in the morning, just depending on how long we had.and then food gets delivered and so we all go to breakfast. ithink it's around like, 8:00 in the morning. we all sit down tobreakfast, eat our breakfast and then we head into the main roomwhere there's this giant table and it's really colorful,there's huge windows, and all the patients kind of sit aroundthe table and we go through our morning routine. so it's a lotof checking in, how things went over the night. we have this bigworkbook or packet that we get

to go through and we work onthat during the morning time. and then after that, we usuallydo some kind of a walk--so walk around the hospital, go on awalk outside, if you're cleared physically to do that, you getto go outside and kind of hang out for a little bit. it's like,10 minutes, but you get to get off the unit; it's really nice.and then you come back and a lot of the other patients who don'tspend the night come onto the unit. and so you have snack timeand you have your first snack of the day. and then we usually gointo a group therapy session or

an individual therapy session.so you meet with your own personal psychologist or you'remeeting with different counselors and are going througha nutritional workbook or you're working on different things. itdepends on the day. so we do that, and then you go to lunch.so you go to the cafeteria and eat some more. there's a lot ofeating involved on the edu. [laughter] and then you split upinto another group. you could have a family therapy session,it really depends on the patient. and sometimes, once aday, we get to go to the ponzio

creative arts therapy program.and so that'll be like, art therapy, music therapy, movementand dance, or yoga therapy. and so we have one of those a day.and it can be in the morning or the afternoon, but usually it'sin the afternoon. so we'll go to that, which is just downstairsfrom the unit. and then after that, you come back and some ofthe parents are in their own class. and so they get out oftheir class and you might have a family group therapy sessionwhere you do--each family gets together and they make an artproject to how they would

describe their family. or you doa painting or you toss it around and you talk about differentthings. it depends on, again, what day it is and what you'redoing. and after that, the parents leave and they go downto the main hospital cafeteria. and what's something differentthat not a lot of people know about the edu, is it's in adifferent building than the main hospital. but they're allconnected from underground tunnels so you can get to eachbuilding pretty easily. so the parents go down to the maincafeteria for dinner, and then

the patients kind of stay andwait around and get some small things done, and then we headdown to the cafeteria as well. at dinner time, you can eat yourmeal with your family and kind of hang out and chat. and afterthat, some of the patients leave to go home if they're notspending the night. and then the rest of the patients come backup to the unit where they can kind of hang out with theirfamily. and we used to watch movies and chill out in my rooma bunch of time. and then parents leave and you haveanother snack and then just to

kind of be by yourself for alittle while, and thenit's bedtime.