My mother was in hospital for a week after being diagnosed with seriously low potassium.
She was discharged last Friday but is still very weak and tired. I rang the hospital and they said that her doctor had told her it would be a few weeks before she was back to normal.
She had to go back to her GP this morning for blood tests (the hospital said to do this for follow up) and will be seeing her GP, who is brilliant and always puts her in good form, on Monday.
But I've never seen her so exhausted and dispirited. She says the only time she doesn't feel tired is when she's in bed and is in general low mood.
Could this be depression and is this normal when someone has been very ill in hospital?
My mum is in her eighties.