To cut a long story short my OH who has vascular dementia has been having urine infections since September.Finally they was all sorted out.For the past 5 weeks he has been stripping all his clothes off in the early hours of the morning.This includes his incontinence pad,then he gets back into bed & wets the bed.
It all came to a head last Friday after this happened again & he hit me because I was trying to get him dressed.At 7.30am I rang 111.At 12.15pm after speaking to other people an ambulance arrived.They took us both to A&E.They fitted him with a catheter which he then then kept trying to pull out as he was agitated.He then started crying in horrific pain. I was trying to calm him down & managed to find a doctor to give him pain relief.I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't been there. At 7pm I was so exhausted I had to go home leaving him in A&E
He was transferred to the urology assessment unit & has been transferred to a ward today.
On Saturday I had a phone call from the hospital saying he was fit to come home with the catheter still attachedI refused saying I wasn't well enough to look after him.I have since found out he took the catheter out & has been stripping in the night.
Waiting to see what will happen next.I don't think A&E departments are geared up to looking after people with dementia
It all came to a head last Friday after this happened again & he hit me because I was trying to get him dressed.At 7.30am I rang 111.At 12.15pm after speaking to other people an ambulance arrived.They took us both to A&E.They fitted him with a catheter which he then then kept trying to pull out as he was agitated.He then started crying in horrific pain. I was trying to calm him down & managed to find a doctor to give him pain relief.I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't been there. At 7pm I was so exhausted I had to go home leaving him in A&E
He was transferred to the urology assessment unit & has been transferred to a ward today.
On Saturday I had a phone call from the hospital saying he was fit to come home with the catheter still attachedI refused saying I wasn't well enough to look after him.I have since found out he took the catheter out & has been stripping in the night.
Waiting to see what will happen next.I don't think A&E departments are geared up to looking after people with dementia