This will seem such a pathetic concern when compared with Les's huge worries over the last 2 days so I am sorry for that. It is now a full week since my husband came home from hospital and things are going pretty well. Such has been the progress in the hospital's eyes that they have now fully discharged him. I have got him back eating (mainly weetabix, soups and fortisips) and drinking so I am managing to get the calories and fluid in which is a huge improvement on hospital. I thought at the beginning of the week that he just lacked motivation but he is actually sleeping round the clock. He is pottering around a bit upstairs, getting to the bathroom OK and feeding and dressing himself most of the time. But then he just flakes out on the bed. It appears to be proper sleep - he's snoring! We had fun and games mid-morning when I went into his den and he was snoring and he'd closed the curtains. I opened them again and when my back was turned he closed them. And so it went on all day. Open, shut, open, shut. Out of the last 7 days I think he must have been asleep for 6.5 of them! Whilst he was in hospital for all those months he was like this but I thought that was to block out everything around him. I don't think he is poorly at all as everything else seems OK. But is sleeping like this normal in AD or is it just his settling in back at home? He got in his pyjamas at 4.30pm and, although I woke him for tea and supper, I have no fears that he will be awake in the night because that is highly unlikely. Oh, but how good it is to have him home!
Love from Sammyb
Love from Sammyb