My poor old Nan was admitted to hospital yesterday with dehydration, rib pain, increased confusion and so the list goes on. Anyway having visited her weekly at her residential home I took my mum up to see her this morning and just think she looks dreadful.
It's not helping that she won't keep her line in as she keeps fiddling with the cannula and pulling it out as she doesn't know what it is - she has short term memory problems anyway so you can explain what's it's for but moments later she has forgotten. So she's not getting any IV fluids, they are pushing oral fluids but she's so sleepy I'm not sure how much she's taking. Dr's think she has a UTI which she suffers with anyway so quite probable that this is what's the problem.
Just feel really sad. I gave her a kiss goodbye this morning and it felt so poignant , I'm trying hard not to be pessimistic