Does it take for someone with dementia to recover? Or do they? Mum has had a virus and a slight temp, and even after a week of antibiotics in case Mum developed a chest infection ( she is still coughing) she is almost as just as confused and muddled.
One morning she got up early, and Dad didn't hear her, ( we are guessing) she boiled the kettle and filled her hot water bottle. She went back to bed and woke with a burn and a blister on the back of her hand. Of course she doesn't remember doing it.
Her hot water bottle has a cover over it, and we think when trying to fill it and probably with a shaky right hand a splash of hot water went on her left hand.
This is a worry. Personally I would like to throw the hot water bottles away, but wheat bags heated in the microwave are totally foreign to Mum & Dad. We have tried them before. Dad is usually the one that fills them.
She is still wobbly on her feet and calling me more often too.
One morning she got up early, and Dad didn't hear her, ( we are guessing) she boiled the kettle and filled her hot water bottle. She went back to bed and woke with a burn and a blister on the back of her hand. Of course she doesn't remember doing it.
Her hot water bottle has a cover over it, and we think when trying to fill it and probably with a shaky right hand a splash of hot water went on her left hand.
This is a worry. Personally I would like to throw the hot water bottles away, but wheat bags heated in the microwave are totally foreign to Mum & Dad. We have tried them before. Dad is usually the one that fills them.
She is still wobbly on her feet and calling me more often too.