hello all. I haven't posted for a while because all hell broke loose and kept breaking. Six months ago my dad was sectioned on a Section 2 after throwing a chair at the carer and grabbing the steering wheel from my mother when she was driving in the fast lane. It was predictably a devastating experience but anyway he was detained for a couple of months, then went to a care home with EMI unit. Ha. He lashed out at another resident when she tried to touch him (bad idea), so they kicked him out, and if I weren't polite, I'd tell you all which care home it was because they are a disgrace. EMI my foot. Anyway he was then re-sectioned on a section 3 and is now in a very good NHS facility which we - my mother is main carer and we are 4 siblings - are mostly happy with except for one glaring, urgent issue: he won't eat and they aren't making him or succeeding in making him eat. He has lost about three stone in six months, I'd guess, dropped two trouser sizes by June and now two trouser sizes again. My mother goes in nearly every day to feed him eg rice pudding, strawberry milkshakes, chocolate milk. He won't eat much else and has difficulty swallowing solid food. But she is extremely worried. Any suggestions? I've suggested she get some high protein milkshakes eg that bodybuilders and athletes use. If they taste ok, maybe that will help. I'm not quite sure why the NHS unit isn't trying those, but they aren't. All advice gratefully welcomed, as ever, and love and best wishes to everyone touched by this vile condition.
Background: Dad diagnosed several years ago. 72 yrs old. Mother main carer, four children live nearby. Sectioned in April, currently detained as informal patient in NHS assessment unit.
Background: Dad diagnosed several years ago. 72 yrs old. Mother main carer, four children live nearby. Sectioned in April, currently detained as informal patient in NHS assessment unit.
