Thank you
@Layla ! Yes and no. We asked for a less sedating pain med; got one dose of IVTylenol. Definitely more awake and alert. There are only two more dose of it in the whole gigantic hospital so no more for her. Liquid by mouth. I didn't believe she could do it but she managed.
We asked Foley out. Got it, with a PureWick instead. Amazing little device! She has a deep teaching from her babyhood that good girls don't wet the bed. So every time she has to pee (and evidently she'd been holding it for a lonnnng time), we go through the reassuring that it is the right thing to do in this case. Every two minutes if necessary; her working memory is about2-3 seconds it seems.
Then she had to poop! She threw off the covers and appeared ready to get out of bed. (As if... but a good sign that she's not so medicated now!). So half an hour later, while the IV tylenol issue is still outstanding, the bedpan and two nurses arrive. Long story short, and to paraphrase, "nope, can't do it, it went away". So we had some laughs about it running away.
Then, the oral tylenol liquid arrives. A great deal of it. She persevered, mostly because she kept forgetting it was nasty. But she did ask (translating here) why does it have to taste so awful!!? Another laugh. And let us hope it works. I am in awe that a 91 year old with a new ball, posterior, seems to need so little medication!
We'd asked for one other thing but I forget what it was. We got it too.
I spent some time on the phone with a home health agency and with an agency which provides caregivers.
Mom probably is developing "hospital delirium".
This is turning more dementia than hip. Hip apparently fine. Patient has yet to bear weight but did get out of bed with 3 people assisting and bearing weight of her. Try again tomorrow. Monday discharge if hospitalist is to be believed, but the therapy team won't release her until she's a one-person transfer to chair or commode. I'd rather use therapy team's ok than a doctor saying she's fine to go. It's a tightrope over the lava in Mount Doom.
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