Husband Ken has been in hospital nearly a week for medical assessment. The medication prescribed for his extreme anxiety attacks is no longer helping and I am hoping that something more effective can be sorted out for him. It has been a difficult time for both of us to cope with. He is now in a calmer and more sedated state but it is very hard to visit him and see him looking such an old and frail man, just another one of the many old and frail looking patients on the ward.
I arrived on the ward this afternoon and was taken into the office by the sister who told me Ken had been kissing and cuddling the females on the ward!! What a shock this was for me!! I had read of this sort of behaviour on TP and this did help me to cope with the news. She said that if he continued doing this they would have to move him upstairs to a male only ward. What more degredation can this horrible illness throw at us????? Haven't we suffered enough????????
I already had some knowledge that this sort of behaviour happens sometimes with AZ. I got this information from a previous posting on TP a while ago. This did help me to cope today and I have posted now in order to support any one else who may find themselves in this terribly embarrassing position.
How good it is to have this site and how well it prepared me to cope with things today. xx TinaT
I arrived on the ward this afternoon and was taken into the office by the sister who told me Ken had been kissing and cuddling the females on the ward!! What a shock this was for me!! I had read of this sort of behaviour on TP and this did help me to cope with the news. She said that if he continued doing this they would have to move him upstairs to a male only ward. What more degredation can this horrible illness throw at us????? Haven't we suffered enough????????
I already had some knowledge that this sort of behaviour happens sometimes with AZ. I got this information from a previous posting on TP a while ago. This did help me to cope today and I have posted now in order to support any one else who may find themselves in this terribly embarrassing position.
How good it is to have this site and how well it prepared me to cope with things today. xx TinaT