I have just been to see Edna at West heath Hospital and it was very difficult.
She was very distressed when I got there, didn't know where she was or what she was doing there. I managed to calm her down and reminded her what had happened. She then got very distresssed and we went through the ' I never thought I would end up like this' conversation.
The visit was very difficult because she kept getting disorientated, and thought she was at Sorrento - either as a memeber of staff or even more bizarrely as a patient having a baby!!
She said she couldn't find Alma, that she had she had slept in her flat last night, that she didn't know where she was going to go tonight.
During the visit she needed the toilet and basically she hadn't asked in time so when the orderly got her to the loo she had wet herself and all her clothes. he came and asked me to get some clean clothes and persuade her to change all of them. Apparently she didnt want to change her skirt. I mananged to get her undressed and re-dressed but she was exhausted by the time it was all done.
She also mananged to worry her ID band off while I was there. When I told her she had to have one because she was in hospitla she said why did she have to have one when no-one else did. I countered by reminding her that she couldnt have any medication unless they could check he ID on her wrist band.
I think she is losing the will to live even more than she has up to now.
I feel totally drained by the visit
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