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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all of the insight and suggestions and stories.  Sepsis turned out to not be sepsis, from what I understand her UTI was from E. coli and that was the same bacteria in her blood.  So not quite sepsis?  They didn’t really explain it well.

She’s on the mend but now we’re back in the pattern of them drugging her heavily at night so she’s completely comatose during the day.  When she comes out of the narcotic she actually is more alert and with it than I’ve seen in a very long time, it makes me wonder if she hasn’t been fighting an infection in awhile. I told the hospital if they want to keep her there forever that’s the way to do it, she’ll never be coherent enough to leave.  Hopefully we spring her today (if they didn’t give her a high dose narcotic last night).

I agree about hospice and/or palliative care.  When she was in the hospital last month they seemed to think palliative care was appropriate and it was too soon for hospice.  She only got out of rehab two weeks ago today and I moved her to memory care so it’s been a busy two weeks.  I am going to engage hospice and see if I can’t get some help.  Dementia is a nasty beast, and getting old seems to really suck.

Thanks for all the support.  [/quote]
If she had bacteria in the blood she had sepsis. Consider declining antibiotics from here on out. [/quote]

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