The Old Folks Home

[NotAFarm]

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Good to hear you are feeling better! I'm praying you will recovery quickly.

 

[chickadoodles]

Getaclue I also hope you have a speedy recovery.

 

[microchick]

I lost an Alzheimer's patient once but found her in the empty kitchen at 11 pm at night. Somebody had forgotten to lock one of the doors and the little old lady found her way in there. I found her sitting in her wheelchair in the dark and asked her what she was doing in the kitchen? Looking for a snack? She just chuckled and said "I was waiting for you to find me."

They can be so funny. Glad you are feeling better today, @getaclue. It takes so long for your body to recover. Just take it easy. At least you are having to deal with this during the 'down times' of winter. But it kind of sounds as though you were their 'Murphy's Law' patient of the day. You know, everything they could mess up, they did. The fact that they marked you themselves k\vaguely sounds as though they had dealt with the problem before. Now that is unsettling and great motivation for staying well so you don't have to go back there again.

 

[whoop whoop]

@microchick I looked after my mum with Alz and one day when I had to get the doc in - she said out of the blue 'my handle is bubbles' well I just died laughing, mum said why you laughing its true and it was. Funny how they can be so coherant sometimes and others just way away.

 

[microchick]

I had the privilege to overhear two little old ladies with Alz. holding a conversation once. They were both babbling away in fragmented, jumbled sentences with dis-associated words, completely serious and nodding the way two people do when they agree with one another. I looked at the other nurse I was working with and said I'd really like to know what that conversation was really all about. They went on for about 5 minutes and one of them finally said "See ya!" and wheeled away.

Please God if I ever get dementia, let it be a happy one like those two had.

 

[Peep_Show]

Mom had the happiest dementia. Even though bedridden, she was exhausted from a day in Pebble Beach or strolling along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley with her college chums. We set up the hospital bed in the dining room (easy access to everything and great view AND on the 1st floor) and one day when talking with me she deadpan serious said, "I have wallpaper like this in my house."

Although sad in nature, it was a pleasant happening.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I understand that Ma in the nursing home was sitting in her wheelchair
in the "day room" very quietly said I should have never quit smoking
I had tears in my eyes from laughing as we had quit about 2 months earlier

 

[Beer can]

@getaclue wishes and prayers.

 

[Beer can]

I'm so glad you're home and thank you for taking the time to update us. I'm also glad you stood up for yourself and didn't take shoddy nursing. Those nurses were likely understaffed and overworked. I wish everyone would say something because maybe it would improve, but I guess not, it's all about the money. 

Many nights in very good few different hospitals over the yrs between five kids and one early and one asthmatic many late nights in ER. I seriously think many nurses and doctors work 18-24hrs straight. Not all of them but it always seemed like the good one's they really need don't ever get to go home.

 

[Beer can]

DW always says I must have Alzheimer's. I think she must. No way does she 'already told you that'. I think she's got dementia, never tells me half the stuff she claims she already did. At least I don't think so.