You stated it is the Gwinett county court. This is in Georgia, right? My suggestion is that you have a mental competency test done by a physician before going to court and have the physician that administers it subpoenaed. If she is competent, this should take care of it. I'm not a lawyer, but this just seems like it would have to be accepted by the court.
Restore appears to be a Neurobehavioral center for people with serious brain injuries. What do her doctors at this center say about her ability to live independently again?
The latest on this the medicine that she take is messing with her thoughts so she stop taking so I'm of them and her thoughts has become more clear. And now her son had told the facility if she stop taking her all her medicine do not let her go to court on the 25th of august 2014 and facility agreed what can she do.
Not sure what most of those are due to spelling. Lipid or is for cholesterol, keppra, as you say is for seizures. She may not have had a grand Mal seizure, but absence seizures are pretty common with head injuries. It just looks like the person is lost in thought for a moment. Ability is used to boost the effect of another antidepressant. Can you get the Don to sit with you and one of the docs to talk about what is going on, and why he doesn't want her to go to court now? Do you have a friend or relative you trust you can bring along who can listen with no emotion? You're upset, obviously and for good reason, but you need to get a clearer picture of what is going on here.
Well, holding the statin makes sense, some people have memory or cognitive problems on it; it could always be resumed later. Ritalin and amantidine are stimulants used early in the course of brain injury to increase arousal and participation and may be tapered off if no longer needed. Keppra is commonly used as a seizure preventive, and with the exception of some penetrating "open" brain injury should generally be tapered off and the person can then be observed closely for any emergence of subtle seizure activity. You don't want her on Abilify if not absolutely necessary - so many people get drug-induced Parkinsonism from it after brain injury, and if it was just for severe agitation and that's better now it would make sense to get off that.
I would say to find anything you can to read on "traumatic brain injury" and stages of recovery. Not sure what to say about court and guardianship; if she is recovering there will be a lot of change, but at times, judgement and what they call "executive functions" may not be very good or at least not as good as they were before. Any guardianship would probably need to be temporary as she may continue to improve quite a bit.
I may be just guessing and going out on a limb - but if what you mean is she says she wants to go home, and she is not ready - then her son is doing the right thing to keep her in the rehab. Many or even most people with brain injury, particularly early on, don't realize what has happened and think everything will be back to normal if they can just go home; they are often very unaware of what they are not able to do and need help with, to the point of not being safe. Often a person with a brain injury who can't walk yet will not remember that and will keep getting up out of bed without help, and risk re-injury that way. I think it is very possible that her son is absolutely doing the right thing to insist she stays in rehab for a while and maximize her chances of real recovery to a better level of function.
She has not had a history of depression, dementia, seizure s,muscle twitch e's , uncontrolled muscle movements or confusion, or narcolepsy. She is being given two different drugs to treat depression: ability and trazodone. These are the others lipitor, ritalin, Aricept, keppra, amantadine, pepcid, vitamin d. She do not need to be on six of the nine medications: ritalin, aricept, abilify, keppra, trazodone, amantadine: these six produce side effects for each other to be treated.
Trazodone is an antidepressant, BUT is also commonly used in brain injury. You are looking up these drugs and their usual labeled uses and thinking the doctors are just idiots and don't know she does not have depression. PLEASE educate yourself on "traumatic brain injury" -usually the hospital has educational material they give to families. It must be agonizing to think her care is being so badly mismanaged, but I think you will end up being more comfortable when you understand better what is really going on.
My advice is to get the court to let you get POA. There is paperwork to fill out to change a POA. Start with that and then have her give you the POA. Make sure you have the right people to help you out if you need any help!
I would say to find anything you can to read on "traumatic brain injury" and stages of recovery. Not sure what to say about court and guardianship; if she is recovering there will be a lot of change, but at times, judgement and what they call "executive functions" may not be very good or at least not as good as they were before. Any guardianship would probably need to be temporary as she may continue to improve quite a bit.