Well last night rates high on my list of nights from hell.
We got a call at about 11.30pm last night to say that Jean had been trying to get out of her upstairs bedroom window. This is because she was convinced she was not in her own home. She had wandered off earlier on and into someone elses house thinking it was hers and when her sister had taken her home she had become violent so they locked her in. Consequently she tried to escape through an upstairs window onto a corregated plastic porch roof. It wasn't until after this event that we were sent for. We live 20 miles away and so didn't get there until nearly 12.30am. Jean was sat there with her coat on ready to 'go home' as she put it. We spent a good two hours telling her over and over that she was home and that she needed to go to bed but she kept saying it wasn't her home and she was going home to her mother's house whether we took her or not. Finally at about 2.30am we managed to convince her to stay put and I had to keep telling her that we were staying with her in the next room. However, everytime we settled down she got up and tried to get outside again. That happened about 4 times before we eventually got her to settle in bed (fully clothed with her nightie over the top).
She slept til about 1pm this afternoon by which time we had had chance to talk to her home help lady and got a doctor round - trouble is being a bank holiday it was an on call doc not her GP. She prescribed antibiotics as she said an infection can cause massive confusion and a sedative that the district nurse will come and make her take tonight.
My biggest problem at the moment is her sisters, as apparently, we are evil and useless, we are doing nothing to help and they want her putting in a home, and they are now refusing to feed her!! I have no idea what to do - her support network is falling apart around me and I just don't know what to do for the best.
Blue_Gremlin
We got a call at about 11.30pm last night to say that Jean had been trying to get out of her upstairs bedroom window. This is because she was convinced she was not in her own home. She had wandered off earlier on and into someone elses house thinking it was hers and when her sister had taken her home she had become violent so they locked her in. Consequently she tried to escape through an upstairs window onto a corregated plastic porch roof. It wasn't until after this event that we were sent for. We live 20 miles away and so didn't get there until nearly 12.30am. Jean was sat there with her coat on ready to 'go home' as she put it. We spent a good two hours telling her over and over that she was home and that she needed to go to bed but she kept saying it wasn't her home and she was going home to her mother's house whether we took her or not. Finally at about 2.30am we managed to convince her to stay put and I had to keep telling her that we were staying with her in the next room. However, everytime we settled down she got up and tried to get outside again. That happened about 4 times before we eventually got her to settle in bed (fully clothed with her nightie over the top).
She slept til about 1pm this afternoon by which time we had had chance to talk to her home help lady and got a doctor round - trouble is being a bank holiday it was an on call doc not her GP. She prescribed antibiotics as she said an infection can cause massive confusion and a sedative that the district nurse will come and make her take tonight.
My biggest problem at the moment is her sisters, as apparently, we are evil and useless, we are doing nothing to help and they want her putting in a home, and they are now refusing to feed her!! I have no idea what to do - her support network is falling apart around me and I just don't know what to do for the best.
Blue_Gremlin