Hi all,
I would just like to share with you our best day for the last 5 months. M in law was diagnosed 5 months ago with a UTI which required hospital admission, she was discharged after 1 week, only to be readmitted l day later with clostridium difficile (diarroah superbug) after a few days she was isolated for 7 weeks, during which time the bug supposedly went and she became reinfected. After 8 weeks in hospital, she was discharged directly into a nursing home, by this time she had lost all mobility, couldn't feed or drink without 100% help (this was a huge deterioration in her health - when she was admitted to hospital they had trouble keeping her on the ward because she wandered)
After two days in the nursing home, she came down again with clostridium difficile, she has been extremely poorly, but her husband and sons/wives have been going in every day to feed her lunch and tea, and get as much liquid into her as we can. The staff cannot spend up to 1.5 hours feeding her, although in the last couple of weeks this has got better. Well after 10 weeks isolated in her bedroom in the nursing home, yesterday we had the good news that she was now clear of clostridium difficile. We immediately got her into a wheelchair, and wheeled her up the corridor, she sat at the dining table in her wheelchair and we fed her lunch and tea, today we are going to take her out for a walk in the wheelchair. It seems like a huge step, she hasn't been outside for 5 months. Her husband aged 87 is looking forward to it, (it is as much for his benefit as hers) actually I don't suppose she will even notice, but it will boost us all up.
She has currently been diagnosed with another UTI two weeks ago, but after it was cultured it came back as being resistant to all oral antibiotics, they have taken another sample but say that they will talk with the family when this result comes back, as they think she will have to be hospitalised to receive antiobiotics by drip, which is our worst nightmare to be back in hospital again, and antiobiotics could set off the c. diff again.
But hey, we'll savour the moment of taking our first wheelchair ride out today.
All for now. Have a good day one and all.
Carolx
I would just like to share with you our best day for the last 5 months. M in law was diagnosed 5 months ago with a UTI which required hospital admission, she was discharged after 1 week, only to be readmitted l day later with clostridium difficile (diarroah superbug) after a few days she was isolated for 7 weeks, during which time the bug supposedly went and she became reinfected. After 8 weeks in hospital, she was discharged directly into a nursing home, by this time she had lost all mobility, couldn't feed or drink without 100% help (this was a huge deterioration in her health - when she was admitted to hospital they had trouble keeping her on the ward because she wandered)
After two days in the nursing home, she came down again with clostridium difficile, she has been extremely poorly, but her husband and sons/wives have been going in every day to feed her lunch and tea, and get as much liquid into her as we can. The staff cannot spend up to 1.5 hours feeding her, although in the last couple of weeks this has got better. Well after 10 weeks isolated in her bedroom in the nursing home, yesterday we had the good news that she was now clear of clostridium difficile. We immediately got her into a wheelchair, and wheeled her up the corridor, she sat at the dining table in her wheelchair and we fed her lunch and tea, today we are going to take her out for a walk in the wheelchair. It seems like a huge step, she hasn't been outside for 5 months. Her husband aged 87 is looking forward to it, (it is as much for his benefit as hers) actually I don't suppose she will even notice, but it will boost us all up.
She has currently been diagnosed with another UTI two weeks ago, but after it was cultured it came back as being resistant to all oral antibiotics, they have taken another sample but say that they will talk with the family when this result comes back, as they think she will have to be hospitalised to receive antiobiotics by drip, which is our worst nightmare to be back in hospital again, and antiobiotics could set off the c. diff again.
But hey, we'll savour the moment of taking our first wheelchair ride out today.
All for now. Have a good day one and all.
Carolx