Despite her initial resistance, Trapanotto arrived at the inpatient rehabilitation hospital on May 18. From the moment she arrived, she knew she was in good hands.
“Everyone, and I really mean everyone, who came into my room to help me – all of the nurses and nurse technicians down to the people who cleaned, were friendly, courteous and caring,” she wrote in a letter to Carey Swanson, the hospital’s CEO. “I tell everyone about how wonderful Tidelands is and how, if they or anyone they know needs to go to a rehab, it definitely should be Tidelands.”
Trapanotto says she followed the guidance of her therapists at the hospital and came away stronger than before she broke her hip. She was determined to prove to her caregivers — and herself — that she could do it.
“I can never say enough or do enough to let everyone know what a difference the people who work there made in my life,” she says.