Husband has had a accident and broken hip worried about when he is discharged from hospital advice needed

[MollyBunny154]

I wonder if any one can give me some advice or has been in a similar situation.
On Monday my husband had a serious accident at work.
He had a fall and was in alot of pain and couldn't not move his leg.

He was rushed to hospital by ambulance and once there they discovered he had broken his hip.
He had surgery Tuesday Morning and has been in hospital since.

He is going to be in hospital for at least a few more days.

I'm really worried about when it comes to discharge. He won't be able to go up and down stairs.

We live in a small 3 bedroom house, with our 4 children.

All bedrooms are upstairs.

We only have a kitchen and living room downstairs, plus wetroom with toilet.

Living room is not very big. There is no way we could fit a bed in there unless we removed sofa. But I have no where else I can put sofa. It would also leave the rest of us with no living room.

Sofa is not very wide and is low and not really suitable to sleep on.

On top of that we have a ongoing problem with our boiler which means that we have no hot water down stairs.
So although we have a bathroom downstairs we can't use it as no hot water.

We don't even have hot water in kitchen, I have to take everything upstairs to wash up.

I don't know what to do. Will they expect us to have a bed for him down stairs, what happens if our house isn't suitable to be discharged too. Any one been in this situation.

On top of that 3 of our children have Autism and other medical conditions, I'm there full time carerer. I don't know how I'm going to take care of my children and my husband when he comes home.

We have no family near by as all his family is in France and my family live other end of country.
We don't really have many friends so have no one we can really ask for help.

I'm panicking and feel so overwhelmed, I don't know what to do.

Any advice much appreciated

Thanks in advance

Tell the hospital the situation and they can assess and advise. Likely he needs stairs assessment etc anyway.
if he’s not going to be sufficiently mobile they’ll tell you and either provide bed / aids so sent to rehab.

ita been logged and reported as a work accident hasn’t it ? There should be a lot of health and safety type stuff going on.

He should be assessed by an OT for home support, and a physio for stairs etc. Hopefully a suitable plan will be made for discharge. Don't accept being his default carer if you don't think you can manage.

Depending on where you live there may by a Reablement Team or rehab team who will support the discharge home.
Speak with the physios and OTs in the hospital, but there will be certain criteria your husband needs to meet before they recommend he's discharged.
Good luck

The OT should do an assessment to check he can manage at home. If he needs aids then they should be provided. They will usually provide a special chair for him to sit on comfortably, crutches or walker and toilet raiser. Also a special kitchen stool so he can make a cuppa or prepare a light meal by himself.
Have you got a banister on your stairs? He will need this to climb the stairs using a crutch too. He should be able to manage this way. Make sure you ask what’s available and what he will need to help him with his independence. Don’t let them discharge him without all the aids in place.

Things are likely to be different now, but when my mum broke her hip about 15 years ago, she wasn't discharged straight home (for similar reasons, no downstairs bathroom and nowhere to put a bed downstairs) she went to a rehab centre for several weeks until she could manage stairs again.