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For those here who pray, I'd appreciate if you put one up for my sweet mother-in-law, and one for her sweet daughter, my wife. My wife is also her caregiver.
My MIL has been suffering a declining state of dementia for three years, although she does still know who we all are. She was admitted yesterday to the hospital with a UTI, pneumonia, and sepsis. I thought she was dying until they said it was a UTI, and I have seen this before in other old folks.
They have her on three antibiotics and I expect we'll take her to rehab in a few days.
That said, the formerly sweet woman who was the guardian angel for her small family, including the grandkids for 86 years turned mean as a snake last night. I mean, just all at once according to my wife this morning. Belligerent, non-compliant with the nurses, didn't sleep a wink all night when she usually sleeps all the time, although she laid in bed quietly all night, like she usually does all day and night before yesterday.
The nurses said this is pretty common behavior. She had been on antibiotics for probably 12 hours when this all started. Not sure if the antibiotics cause it, or if it is a symptom of the dementia perhaps exacerbated by the infection (they say this is not unusual at all) that has just manifested itself. I guess we'll find out in a few days.
Thanks in advance.
My MIL has been suffering a declining state of dementia for three years, although she does still know who we all are. She was admitted yesterday to the hospital with a UTI, pneumonia, and sepsis. I thought she was dying until they said it was a UTI, and I have seen this before in other old folks.
They have her on three antibiotics and I expect we'll take her to rehab in a few days.
That said, the formerly sweet woman who was the guardian angel for her small family, including the grandkids for 86 years turned mean as a snake last night. I mean, just all at once according to my wife this morning. Belligerent, non-compliant with the nurses, didn't sleep a wink all night when she usually sleeps all the time, although she laid in bed quietly all night, like she usually does all day and night before yesterday.
The nurses said this is pretty common behavior. She had been on antibiotics for probably 12 hours when this all started. Not sure if the antibiotics cause it, or if it is a symptom of the dementia perhaps exacerbated by the infection (they say this is not unusual at all) that has just manifested itself. I guess we'll find out in a few days.
Thanks in advance.
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