Mom has worsened. She called the police in a bad mental state a week ago, said she was having issues with my Dad trying to 'hurt' her. They took her to the only available Emergency Room, halfway across town and she was admitted in a psychotic state. These doctors and this hospital are not her normal care providers, so we had to spend all week coordinating her care. Finally they got her evaluated and a doctor called me Thursday evening and basically said they haven't seen this sort of thing manifest in this type of situation before; they don't know if her trouble is from the steroids, the tumor, the painkillers, or the former history of strokes and brain damage from that. It's very frustrating, she thinks the doctors are killing her, the nurses are killing her, my Dad is killing her, and now I am killing her for leaving her in the hospital. I swear, she's totally LOST IT.
The worst part is, her radiation treatments to shrink the tumor can't take place as long as she's hospitalized - so unless she can stay in the home, she has no hope of survival from this. Dad took her home late Thursday night. Please, everyone pray for him - he's handling this with the home of 2 daily visits from home health aides, and Mom's already pissed them off bigtime.
He's determined to get her the radiation treatments, even if it means he has to keep her at home for 2 or 3 weeks. If she freaks out again, and gets crazy, I'm afraid she will end up in either a convalescent home or the hospice.
Please pray for my family at this time; that's really all we can do. Thank you and God Bless.
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