Hello, I am hoping to get some advice to help me help my Father.
He is basically being starved to death and is receiving very poor care in hospital.
I’ll give some background and then I he current problem.
Dads 79 and has complex health needs diabetes, heart failure, slow healing leg and foot wounds. He has had some kind of memory decline for 6 years but still has no diagnosis for various reasons.
The last time I saw Dad was 3 days before he was admitted to hospital and he was walking with the aid of a stick and holding a conversation and interacting with people and recognising people he knows and remembering some dates.
He went in to hospital and I saw him a few days after and he was sleepy but had a good colour and his leg wounds looked good and dry. He went in for a UTI and I was not at all worried as this had happened a few times and he get antibiotics and comes home.
The next time I saw Dad was 7 days later and he looked really really ill. He’s lost lots of weight, was catheterised, delirious and look like he’s had a stroke. He cannot speak and his jaw is juddering. He mostly makes noises and random words. Sometimes he says a whole sentence.
I’ve been in 3 hours a day for 3 days trying to get water and food in to him. I’ve managed about 4 small cups of water and 10 tiny mouth fulls of food.
I’ve not seen any attempt to really communicate with Dad, he’s had no physio, and is not on IV fluids. No one came to feed him or offer water while I was there.
I want to advocate for him and have talked to PALS who have spoken to the sister and she just tried to reassure me. I want action not platitudes.
He has been in for 10 days snd they are only just checking his leg wounds for infection ?
I want to violently shake them all. They written him off to just die.
Help me please.
He is basically being starved to death and is receiving very poor care in hospital.
I’ll give some background and then I he current problem.
Dads 79 and has complex health needs diabetes, heart failure, slow healing leg and foot wounds. He has had some kind of memory decline for 6 years but still has no diagnosis for various reasons.
The last time I saw Dad was 3 days before he was admitted to hospital and he was walking with the aid of a stick and holding a conversation and interacting with people and recognising people he knows and remembering some dates.
He went in to hospital and I saw him a few days after and he was sleepy but had a good colour and his leg wounds looked good and dry. He went in for a UTI and I was not at all worried as this had happened a few times and he get antibiotics and comes home.
The next time I saw Dad was 7 days later and he looked really really ill. He’s lost lots of weight, was catheterised, delirious and look like he’s had a stroke. He cannot speak and his jaw is juddering. He mostly makes noises and random words. Sometimes he says a whole sentence.
I’ve been in 3 hours a day for 3 days trying to get water and food in to him. I’ve managed about 4 small cups of water and 10 tiny mouth fulls of food.
I’ve not seen any attempt to really communicate with Dad, he’s had no physio, and is not on IV fluids. No one came to feed him or offer water while I was there.
I want to advocate for him and have talked to PALS who have spoken to the sister and she just tried to reassure me. I want action not platitudes.
He has been in for 10 days snd they are only just checking his leg wounds for infection ?
I want to violently shake them all. They written him off to just die.
Help me please.