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Welcome to Hell-Crest Commons

During a three month long hospital stay for a flare up of my autoimmune-mediated small fiber autonomic polyneuropathy I went downhill so fast that I couldn’t even sit up on my own, I could barely lift my head off the pillow some days, let alone bear weight and transfer into my wheelchair, I went in ambulance for an hour-long ride down to Hillcrest Commons the nursing home/rehab that I was supposedly going to for a few weeks or months for intense rehab, so that I would get enough strength to function outside of a hospital or nursing home environment.

Hillcrest Commons is located in Pittsfield which is in the Berkshires (part of Western Massachusetts) so it’s a very beautiful location.  It’s right on the border of upstate New York and it’s near the Vermont border as well.

Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation | Hillcrest Commons

I tried to talk to the paramedic, that was sitting in the back … Find Out What Happens Next

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When Jenny Coded and They Couldn’t Save Her

About an hour earlier I had arrived at the only rehab/nursing home in the area that would take someone as medically fragile and medically complex as I am. The nursing home was called Hillcrest Commons, but I had started to call it Hell-crest Commons. From the moment I rolled in the door I knew I was in trouble, but when I med with the nurse practitioner that would be in charge of my case while I was there, her name was Jillian, I had full force alarm bells going off as loud as possible in my head. She basically told me that my disease wasn’t really as bad as I thought it was and that I didn’t need my tube feeding or my IV fluids. I knew this was wrong, I knew what the leading experts in the world on my disease had said about my treatment and I was … Find Out What Happens Next

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