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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Exhausted from last night and haven't had a chance to read all replies yet but wanted to share that we learned mom was prescribed a med by the ER doctor after her second fall.  Not blaming the sibling who was informed but that sib believed the med was for anxiety.  Turns out it was a pain med, narcotic category that has side effects such as increased anxiety, restlessness and frequency of urination/urge to urinate.  All things mom was experiencing.  She can't be her own patient advocate any longer so we need to be and to pay more attention to meds and research them.  Trying it with her off of the Tramadol.  More later and thanks again for all of your input.  Siblings and I were not prepared and we feel bad about everything.  We'll do better.[/quote]

Hang in there.  You do need to be heavily involved.  We had to get court legal guardianship as the nursing home fought us over everything with the POA.  (if you have to do it its an easy process and the court was great about helping us through it).  A lot of these medications have even worse fall risks and its pretty common to offer heavy medications.  Go head and put in a referral for hospice.  If she broke anything at her age it may be a qualifier.  Worst case they say no, best case, they say yes and get you through a few months of navigating all this and then they pull out (which they did for us).  I'm sorry she and your family are going through this.  Its impossible to really be prepared in less you have done it before.  It was a huge learning curve for me.[/quote]

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