Nell is home from the hospital and this is her dog who was distraught over her absence. Her son and I took her outside to see the tulips.
What a nightmare he had. She went in for an infection in her foot. I went to visit on her second day there.
She was hallucinating and completely disoriented. She was carrying on about bugs crawling everywhere, birds in the ceiling, trees coming through the window.
Considering her mental status was fine when she was admitted, the blame has to go to the hospital and whatever meds they put her on. Her doctor had just wanted IV antibiotics and an enforced diabetic diet to get her sugar down.
They decided to handle her decompensation by releasing her.
She spent one night at home during which she kept her son up the entire time, making him vacuum the floor over and over to get rid of the bugs and seeing people coming out of the ground outside her window. He laid on the floor beside her bed to keep an eye on her. At one point, he saw her getting ready to throw some hard boiled eggs left over from Easter through the window at the imaginary people outside.
In the morning after a long night of no sleep, he called the Rescue Squad.
In the ER, she became combative and had to be restrained. They kept injecting Thorazine. After about four shots, she conked out. She spent the next two days in a stupor. When she finally came to her son got her out of there.
She's fine now. The hallucinations haunt her and she talks about how she had big fat spiders crawling on her but I explained to her it was just a nightmare only it happened while she was awake. She's still weak but is back to her old feisty self. She keeps asking me what happened to the Army man I came in with when I visited . She's determined that I have to have a man so I guess she hallucinated one for me. :)
She's off all meds except for the ones she was originally taking when she went in. Lord, they just about killed her there.
All is right with the world again and Snuffles is happy. And so am I. Tomorrow is her birthday and she will be 88. I'm so grateful she survived to see it.
