Hi Guys,
I haven't posted for a long long time but feel the need to now. Mum has been in her nursing home for a while, this year will be her 4th Christmas. I had a call from the NH last Wednesday morning to say they had found mum on the floor unresponsive. Dad and I arrived at the hospital just before mum and the balance.
To cut a long story short she looked awful, she had a CT scan and was found to have a fractured skull (rear), significant bruising to her brain at the rear and also both temporal regions, swelling and a bleed again both to the brain. She was in a sorry state.
Mum had another scan 2 days later and although the bleed on her brain has stopped the swelling has increased. The hospital are struggling to control her temperature (39.9 today), her blood pressure (161/98 at its highest) and she is clutching and scrabbing at her head constantly. She isn't drinking and is on and off a drip like nobodies business, she's eating the smallest amount of food (nurses are feeding her) and a lot of the time she is asleep more than she is awake and even when she is awake she is babbling constantly and gathering her sheets in her fingers almost nervously.
There are a couple of consultants going to see her tomorrow to see if they can pinpoint the problem. She had a UTI (detected in a and e) and has had 5 days antibiotics and they have retested today and there is no further UTI so the doctor on the ward is at a loss hence why the consultants have been called. my poor dad is hopeful she will soon be out of hospital and back in her NH but I can't see it, I'm willing my mum to let go (wicked I know) but she is suffering and so to is dad. They have stopped her angina medication (she has chronic angina and cpd) as it stops her blood clotting so she's a lot going on.
I feel I have waffled, a lot, but it's nice to get it all off my chest with people who understand. I will keep updating when I have news but any advice is welcomed.
Shash x
I haven't posted for a long long time but feel the need to now. Mum has been in her nursing home for a while, this year will be her 4th Christmas. I had a call from the NH last Wednesday morning to say they had found mum on the floor unresponsive. Dad and I arrived at the hospital just before mum and the balance.
To cut a long story short she looked awful, she had a CT scan and was found to have a fractured skull (rear), significant bruising to her brain at the rear and also both temporal regions, swelling and a bleed again both to the brain. She was in a sorry state.
Mum had another scan 2 days later and although the bleed on her brain has stopped the swelling has increased. The hospital are struggling to control her temperature (39.9 today), her blood pressure (161/98 at its highest) and she is clutching and scrabbing at her head constantly. She isn't drinking and is on and off a drip like nobodies business, she's eating the smallest amount of food (nurses are feeding her) and a lot of the time she is asleep more than she is awake and even when she is awake she is babbling constantly and gathering her sheets in her fingers almost nervously.
There are a couple of consultants going to see her tomorrow to see if they can pinpoint the problem. She had a UTI (detected in a and e) and has had 5 days antibiotics and they have retested today and there is no further UTI so the doctor on the ward is at a loss hence why the consultants have been called. my poor dad is hopeful she will soon be out of hospital and back in her NH but I can't see it, I'm willing my mum to let go (wicked I know) but she is suffering and so to is dad. They have stopped her angina medication (she has chronic angina and cpd) as it stops her blood clotting so she's a lot going on.
I feel I have waffled, a lot, but it's nice to get it all off my chest with people who understand. I will keep updating when I have news but any advice is welcomed.
Shash x