Up and down

Edna seems very up and down as regards her her general health, and the way dementia is affecting her.

Her general health is a bit iffy because her legs are bad. Some blisters burst so she has dressings on one leg. Also her diuretics have been increased - much to her annoyance. She has gone from one Frumil 40/5 to a splity dose of Furosemide 40mg am and 20mg early afternoon. She absolutley HATES having her water tablets increased.

Also when I got there she had an ordinary inhaler not an easibreathe. Initially her easibreathe was missing, but it turned up in her bag (wrapped in a bandage I think!) I'm guessing that she complained she couldn't find her inhaler so the ward staff gave her one from stock. Will she be any better keeping track of the inhaler when she is at home?

At one point while an auxilary was doing her obs she was saying that the water needed to be turned off before it overflowed - but she was looking at her trolley. So she was seeing something that I couldn't. Its been the first time for some time that she has had hallucinations. Not a good sign.

But she has remembered that she is going home next week. She started witterring on about groceries so I reminded her that she would having meals on wheels and she heaved a huge sigh of relief. So clearly she hadn't remembered that meals on wheels was part of the package. Or maybe she had remembered - but was worried it couldn't be organised - so maybe not memory loss but lack of trust/paranoia.

Really I am just marking time till Tuesday..........