Dementia Sucks

Big Sarge · 01-05-2018, 01:29 AM

My father is in hospice care at home. Before hospice care, a UTI would lead to confusion and then be followed by a combative state. We quickly learned that if he was staying confused, he had the onset of a UTI. Since hospice, he has been on IV antibiotics constantly. Unfortunately the gangrene is moving past the foot into the leg. Antibiotics aren't doing much to slow it and he is slipping as the infection increases. He has 24 hour care at home, but I think we will have to move him into the hospice unit at the hospital within a couple of weeks.

Sepsis killed my mother. Sepsis/gangrene will take my dad.

01-05-2018, 01:29 AM	#18
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	My father is in hospice care at home. Before hospice care, a UTI would lead to confusion and then be followed by a combative state. We quickly learned that if he was staying confused, he had the onset of a UTI. Since hospice, he has been on IV antibiotics constantly. Unfortunately the gangrene is moving past the foot into the leg. Antibiotics aren't doing much to slow it and he is slipping as the infection increases. He has 24 hour care at home, but I think we will have to move him into the hospice unit at the hospital within a couple of weeks. Sepsis killed my mother. Sepsis/gangrene will take my dad. __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Last edited by Big Sarge; 01-05-2018 at 01:29 AM. Reason: skipped a word

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