They want me to put her in a Psch hospital to get her meds under control but I am afraid if I do this she will not get back into SNH becasue they only hold bed for 14 days and then you have to pay and she can't afford that. They crush up her meds and put in drink or pudding and she can taste it and won't take them and she won't swallow them. She yells and screams for hours they tell me and disrupts other patients. I am at my wits end to find a solution. I am her only living relative and don't know what to do.
With my Mom, they catherized her to get all the urine out of her bladder. The problem with older women, their bladder does not fully void. She was on IV antibiotics for 2 or 3 days. Then, she was placed on probiotics and cranberry tablets to help deter an occurance of a UTI. She lived about a year after this and did not have another UTI.
I don't understand a Psyhic hospital if the UTI has not been properly addressed. To me, if the UTI is not being cleared up by using pills, then they send her to a reg hospital. You have a right to demand this. You have a right to call 911 to take her but then may lose the bed. This is life and death. Sister can becone septic and that could kill her.
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Yes, she may lose her place in line for a bed. I can't imagine that there is a choice here.
In any case, though, they could kick her out for being unmanageable, so best to follow the snf’s suggestion before they make it a mandate.
If the pill is small, she will swallow the medicine, IF she is told what it is for.
As for the UTI s, she needs antibiotics specific to the bacteria causing it. Is there a doctor on staff?
Best wishes.
has to pay more then the standard pay of 12 or 15 dollars an hr.
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