My husband’s grandmother who had dementia. She had been admitted to hospital since 24/11 due vomitting and no appetite to eat. Granny was discharged on the 10/12 but admitted again after four days. She was diagnosed with pneumonia after we fed her lunch as normal a day before admission and her Kidneys fails to function properly. Doc did a scoped her and confirmed that she is unsuitable to eat. Thus she had to be put on full feeding tube.
After her discharge on 24/12. On and off she couldnt recognize us nor talk more two words. She could sleep for continuous for two days and wake up two days. During the 10 days stay at home, when she woke up, she will hallucinate and tell us stuffs like her stuff was left outside the house or her friends are outside of the house and insist on going out using a word or two to express herself. Her sleep prolong to three days these last few days.
On the 2/1 we realized that her knee and hand was swollen. We didnt think much as doc had diagnosed her with atrial fibrillation and Hyperlipidemia. 3/1 her lower body further to swollen till her hip. Whenever i tried to touch her, she will cry out in pain. I called the home nurse and she advice us to send her to the hospital. She was diagnose with UTI and high sodium, kidney didnt function as normal again.
Fast forward 5/1 her whole body was swell up like ballon, doctor had to give medication to let her pass out her water. She was awake and doze off after a while. She didnt answer to any of our questions nor recognise us anymore.
As a caregiver, it pains to see her like this.
After her discharge on 24/12. On and off she couldnt recognize us nor talk more two words. She could sleep for continuous for two days and wake up two days. During the 10 days stay at home, when she woke up, she will hallucinate and tell us stuffs like her stuff was left outside the house or her friends are outside of the house and insist on going out using a word or two to express herself. Her sleep prolong to three days these last few days.
On the 2/1 we realized that her knee and hand was swollen. We didnt think much as doc had diagnosed her with atrial fibrillation and Hyperlipidemia. 3/1 her lower body further to swollen till her hip. Whenever i tried to touch her, she will cry out in pain. I called the home nurse and she advice us to send her to the hospital. She was diagnose with UTI and high sodium, kidney didnt function as normal again.
Fast forward 5/1 her whole body was swell up like ballon, doctor had to give medication to let her pass out her water. She was awake and doze off after a while. She didnt answer to any of our questions nor recognise us anymore.
As a caregiver, it pains to see her like this.
