My husband has had Parkinson’s for 17 years with very little disability.
He has BP problems and fell in November…in hospital for 3 weeks.
Fell again on Xmas Day…in hospital with smashed knee for 4 weeks, now in rehab.
He has off/on Delirium with spells of paranoia, agitation,hallucinations, attacks of unresponsiveness.
He is very ill.
We have been told that elderly people often get resolving Delirium and sometimes it gets better, sometimes not.
It has been and is a horrific time.
We knew nothing of this likelihood and are finding it very frightening…as is my husband.
No one at the hospital told us about this…the rehab staff recognised it straight away…and diagnosed a urine infection for which he is receiving antibiotics…often a trigger factor for Delirium.
Forewarned is forearmed…I wish I had been warned and I would have not have been so shocked.
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