Hello, my first post in this topic <waves>.
Apologies for the uncaring sounding title, I wasn't sure how to word it. Lovely mum, 77, (?? some form of dementia but not started diagnosis road) had pneumonia which was treated as an inpatient and developed delirium. She was in hospital for a couple of weeks and we think (due to weight loss) she can't have been eating much on the ward.
She is home now, chest clear, no delirium, no reason at all to not be back on her feet but it's as if (and I know this sounds incredibly callous but I can't find the words for it) she just doesn't want to try. She is mostly confined to her bedroom and will only walk across the landing and back with a lot of persuasion and a walker. The hardest part is her refusing to eat and drink. Whatever we make tastes 'disgusting', she makes terrible faces whenever we persuade her to eat. Today I got half a litre of water in to her over the course of the day but it was almost all of my day trying to make it happen, the awful face pulling happens with water too even though she says it doesn't taste of anything. She is barely weeing or pooing.
I am; making tasty calorie dense food in tiny portions and eating with her, trying her with different flavours/textures to see if one suits, trying different drinks/milkshakes/fizzy drinks/super cold drinks, everything gets a face and refusal. Has anyone come across anything like this before? We are at a total loss.
TIA