Still in the Hospital

Dee Dee is still in the hospital, but doing fine. The sedatives they gave her in the ambulance took a while to wear off, but as of last night she was walking around and chatting normally. She no longer has back pain, which tells me it was mostly just pain from not being situated in the hospital bed correctly.

The reason she's still in the hospital is because the doctor wants her to have some more physical and occupational therapy, and he also wants to get a psychological evaluation. I think the psychiatrist was there with her as of this morning - we'll know more soon. I was hoping to have her back with us yesterday, but it was not to be.

I'll be visiting her later on today to check on her, but I'm starting to hear murmurs about her not coming back to our house when she's released. I haven't spoken to any doctors or to Ace/Diane yet, but I think there may be concern that unless the mental issues get better, our house isn't the best place for her.

I have high hopes that if the increase in dementia was caused by the urinary tract infection, she will become more coherent over the next few days. I would also add that I don't think her having more dementia affects her staying here per se. If she wants to talk to me all day about how she got married at age 15 and has parties at night with her brothers and sisters, that's fine by me.

But I also see that if the mental issues cause her to crawl around on the floor and zonk out for hours in our foyer, that's probably not the best situation.

So we'll see how things develop. As always, I'll keep the blog updated.