So, last night was not very good. When we left him at around 10:30, they had still not gotten him his sleeping pill. Because he came in so late in the day, the Dr. there did not have a chance to approve all of the medication for my Dad. So they had to request it to be brought over, which was taking a while.
He was so tired yesterday. Much more lucid, and aware. This mixed in with hallucinations was not a good combination. He would be having a completely normal conversation with me, and then point at the ceiling and say "see all those white spiders up there? They are from the Phillipines..." I am not sure what is causing that...Whether it is medication, or coming down off a medication, or just a side effect of everything he is going through.
We left at 10:00 and he fell asleep. When my Mom called the nurses desk to check on him, she said that he was sleeping, but didn't get his pill yet. We told them to not wake him to give him his pill...Made sense at the time, but when he did wake up around 2:00, he was hopping mad that he had not had his meds yet. My Mom ended up going down to try and calm him down, and was there most of the night.
He is still so confused and frustrated. He called me last night at 3:00 am because he wanted me to come get him out. My Mom said she had tried to calm him down for over an hour, but he wanted to talk to me. I didn't give him the answers he wanted to hear either. At this point, he feels like we are letting him down, and that is really tough on my Mom and I. We just have to keep in mind that it is not really him talking and that we are doing what is best for all of us.
Really hard day...More for us than for him, but to have him feel deserted just breaks my heart into a million pieces.
Hoping he gets some attention today from the Physical and Occupational therepists. It will hopefully give him something else to think about and make him tired enough to sleep tonight...WITH his sleeping pill.
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