"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote in message
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>>>> news >>>>> In article >,
>>>>> "Cheryl" > wrote:
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>>>>>> Not sure how to take that, but I'm glad she's in good spirits!
>>>>>
>>>>> Hospital psychosis sucks. I went thru that with my Aunt.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's all the crap they pump into your veins imho.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Peace! Om
>>>>>
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>>>> Yeah, they kept telling me how "demented" my mother was when she was
>>>> in the hospital. She wasn't demented before they got their hands on
>>>> her. She wasn't demented when she got home, either. They sent
>>>> scripts for THIRTY medications home with her. WTF?!
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>>> Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!!!! She would have rattled when
>>> she walked!!!
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>>> *30* meds??? That's obscene!!
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>>> Most of those would have been.... "Oh, you have to take *this one* to
>>> counteract the effects of that one, and then you have to take this one
>>> to counteract the effects of *that one*....... etc, etc!!"
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>>> --
>>> Peter Lucas
>>> Brisbane
>>> Australia
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>> It was ridiculous. Her gerontologist had reduced her prescriptions from
>> nine down to three based on lab work, then in the hospital they ramped
>> her back up to nine and handed me prescriptions for thirty by the time
>> they sent her home. It's no wonder she was seeing my dead father walking
>> around the halls of the hospital and was getting combative with the
>> hospital staff. The day she did come home they didn't give her meds. Her
>> doctor came to the house and ticked off all the reasons why she didn't
>> need this, this, this, that, nor that, nor... basically got her back down
>> to three plus a low dose (baby) aspirin. Not only was she no longer
>> "demented" she could also eat spinach and broccoli, which, with the
>> coumadin they had put her back on in the hospital she wasn't supposed to
>> eat. It was one of the few things I could get her to eat in the end. I
>> wasn't about to give her a drug that would limit her food intake even
>> more.
>>
>> I miss her. She was a very sweet woman.
>>
>> Jill
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> Who prescribed all these excess pills? It would not have been "the
> hospital."

> Anything in a hospital--even an aspirin--would need a doctor's
> prescription, at least in my experience. I went through many of the same
> problems as you did with regard to too many prescriptions for my mother,
> some of which caused horrendous side-effects or were contraindicated.
> Still, I needed to work back through each physician to determine the
> source. As I said, it's not really "the hospital." I do agree, though,
> that the multiplicity of physicians, nurses, aides, technicians, etc.
> somehow seems to result in far too much medication for many patients,
> especially the elderly.
>
> MaryL
>

She was being seen by four different doctors while she was in there.
Including one I expressly told them I didn't want to see her. Then they
lost my Healthcare Power of Attorney papers (and they never made it into her
"chart") so they started ignoring her (and my) wishes and pushing more pills
on her.

This hospital has physicians they call "hospitalers". They don't have
private practices outside of the hospital, so yes, they are "the hospital".
They are just doctors who work there who drop by because they are assigned
to do so.

I took her three medications with me to the hospital when she was admitted
for tests. They completely ignored them. They immediately slapped her back
on the nine medications her former doctors had her on, then upped it to 14,
18, 30. It was ridiculous.

I'm sorry to say this but your mother's experience wasn't the same as my
mother's. My mother wasn't suffering from dementia until these people got
their hands on her. I met with three of the doctors, a physical therapist,
a nursing coordinator and a social worker just trying to get her back home.
They lost her false teeth, for goodness sakes. I'm just glad she made it
back home so she could die in the comfort of her own bed.

Jill