8-11-2021 Incredibly bad day

I got there at 9:00-ish and Linda's nurse stopped me to tell me that because of Linda's coughing and hoarse voice, they took a chest x-ray and she has pneumonia.  So she is on 10 days of antibiotics.  We haven't heard much from Medicare but we think that tomorrow is the end of Medicare coverage.  Ugh.

Linda was dressed and in her wheelchair.  They told me she already had her breakfast but she told me that no one had brought her any food. That was the beginning of three hours of what I will call gibberish and bizarre behavior.  She kept wanting to pull her top up -- and those of us who know Linda know that in her right mind she would NEVER-EVER do that.  

Here are some quotes for the day:

"Father Daragassi says I can use his bathroom."  "Bobby's Fallopian tubes are linked to neutrocins." "They have the prettiest coffins in the area."  There are plenty more but these are the highlights.

She decided she was tired of the feeding tube so she yanked it out which caused a flurry of activity and a bit of bleeding  But in the end they decided to leave it out for the time being and will encourage her to continue to eat food.  If she refuses to eat, I guess there could be another surgery to insert the feeding tube but we won't cross that bridge unless we need to.

Tricia is still under the weather so she has been staying away.  But she has a theory that one of the drugs being given to Linda -- Depakote -- could be contributing to the gibberish so Tricia called the administrator of the Home and asked if Linda could be weaned off of the Depakote to see if that helps.  They are going to talk to the doctor and get back to Tricia.

I left there today extremely depressed.



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