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In reply to the discussion: Vibes, prayer, good wishes ... needed in the worst way [View all]PassingFair
(22,448 posts)28. So sorry.
My aunt was admitted to the nursing home straight from the
hospital and she worried about her "stuff" for about one day.
After that, she was afraid to LEAVE, that they'd give the bed
to someone else.
Now she is not ambulatory at all, and she seems pretty happy,
kind of like an infant. She get REALLY tired if I try to bring her
home for family holidays or even for a car ride.
I have to have help if I take her out, because although she is
light, she is easily hurt and scared and "floppy" to move.
Keep a close eye on the medications they're giving your mother!
They have tried to float inappropriate medications by me many
times. My aunt can be feisty, and they once put her on RISPERDAL...
I protested that after I googled it...the prescribing doctor must
have been getting a Caribbean vacation for prescribing that for her.
Don't let them dope her up so much that it INCREASES the dementia.
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