Dad is 66 with dementia, non-specific, and is in a nursing home. He did break his hip and have a rod put in in January. He also currently has a catheter. These things may have some relevance?
He was fine Wednesday the 22nd of June. I visited him Monday the 27th and for the entire 4 hour visit he was rocking back and forth in his wheelchair. He said he didn't know why he was doing it. I talked to his nurses and they had him lay down and assured me that he stopped doing it when he was laying down. They said they would monitor the situation. This was Monday. Unfortunately, I did not talk to him until Friday as they are short staffed and they don't always answer the phone in his area. We are supposed to have scheduled calls 3 times a week but rarely do they happen.
Anyway, he tells me he is still rocking back and forth and has been even when laying down. I talk to a nurse there and she goes "yeah it looks like he's hip thrusting." What? I thought they were supposed to be monitoring this.
Anyway. Apparently, as of Friday, they were going to have a nurse practitioner and the assistant director of nursing check him out and I still havent heard anything. I talked to the operator and she is relaying my messages. But, I don't know if he's been seen or what.
Basically these symptoms have been happening for a week now.
He is thrusting his hips uncontrollably and when he sits up it makes him rock back and forth but he does it in bed laying down as well. He's not on any new meds to my knowledge. He doesn't have parkinson's, so he's not on any parkinson's meds and to my knowledge that's why people with parkinson's rock, right?
Can it be that he's so stressed that this is his body's way of coping? He really wants to come home :( Or maybe there's an issue with the rod in his hip?
Any ideas at all?
I sit here and wait.
Thank you
If I had not insisted action happen by taking her to ER that day, nothing would have been done.
You know him, what’s normal for him and what’s not. Don’t let them blow you off.
Sending ❤️ to you and your dad. I am so sorry you are both going thru this. These places don’t know our loved ones. Staff is overworked and our person isn’t their priority. They have a facility full of vulnerable people. You are right to question this and keep questioning it until it’s properly addressed. I felt bad I had not pushed my mom’s situation earlier but I accepted their answers bc they are the medical people. I was wrong to do that.
I sure wish you good luck and hope you will update us.
Cariprazine 3mg - Common symptom with severe expression - Extrapyramidal Disease, A Type Of Movement Disorder
I sent a screen shot to a girl I know at the nursing home and told her to show someone
Is he able to voice the pain level he's in?
Without seeing him firsthand, I wouldn't have a clue as to why he's doing this.
Yes, people with Parkinson's rock--but so do people with dementia.
Also, if he had general anesthesia, he may be 'throwing off' the remnants of that.
66 is young. I will turn 66 on Saturday. Life is so unfair--I'm sorry for your dad.
He says he's not in any pain.
Thank you and happy birthday