Tuesday March 22, 2011

John spent the night in emergency. Our family dotor came to see him this morning and admitted him to hospital for an indefinite stay. John has pneumonia which is what was causing the fever. But the antibiotics got that under control quite quickly. However, the doctor is keeping him in to try and get the meds balanced out and working better. Hallelujah. He is going to consult the neurologist and work with him to try and get the puzzle solved.
John felt he had a bad day today. He is still in emergency as there is not bed available up on the ward. So his bed is very uncomfortable. And the nurses are very busy with each new patient who arrives and do not have time to look after the ones hanging around for a long time. I ended up doing all of John's meds and feeding because the nurses were just too busy. Hopefully he will be moved up tomorrow.
Tomorrow is John' 73rd birthday. He thinks this is an awful way to spend a birthday - he says it will be a birthday NOT to remember.
I made sure I was at the hospital by 8am in order to see that he got his first meds for the day. Good job I did because the doctor had only ordered the meds in the blister pack and not any of his Parkinson's meds that are in big bottles because he takes so much of them.
They managed to get hold of the doctor and get verbal permission to give him the sinemet and then we got all the meds sorted out once our own doctor arrived. They were quite astounded at John's regime.
However, they are able to feed him 4 of his 6 cans of protein drink during the night so I only have to feed him twice during the day. This is very good as the protein conflicts with the meds and prevents them from working well.
John did not feel very well all day, but he did not have any episodes of sweating, rigidity etc. Although I am happy about that, I can't help but wonder why???
Please pray the doctors will be able to solve the problem and get the meds working better.
I am sleeping in tomorrow morning (I hope)

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