My mom deteriorated into someone unrecognizable when she was hospitalized for a broken pelvis after a fall. Hospital delirium is a thing. I’m hoping maybe your mom is just having some issues being in that setting. I’m wishing you all the best OP.

Brain bleed?

Is she still in the hospital? Request a scan.

Anonymous wrote:Make sure she is hydrated.
Have a urine culture done. UTIs look like dementia in the old. Often no pain.

+1. This happened to my mom.

Anonymous wrote:Test for UTI, make sure she is hydrated.

This is excellent, important advice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Test for UTI, make sure she is hydrated.

Was my first thought when reading OP

Make sure her doctors know about the abrupt change in her mental state. This sounds more like a uti rather than the end of life change.

Make sure she is hydrated.
Have a urine culture done. UTIs look like dementia in the old. Often no pain.

Anonymous wrote:Test for UTI, make sure she is hydrated.

Was my first thought when reading OP

That definitely sounds like the end. Make sure her affairs are in order.

Test for UTI, make sure she is hydrated.

I'm sorry, Op.

I’m so sorry. I know how painful and shocking it is with the swift decline.

So sorry, OP. There is nothing easy about it.

My mother had a really horrible fall a few months ago. Broke her pelvis, cracked her head, was unconscious for at least 2 hours before my brother found her. She's been in the hospital and honestly healing well and joking around.

Last week she was really confused. Thought my father was still alive as well as my sister who passed away.

Today, she was not doing well. I am not ok. I know this happens, but to see my strong, beautiful, wonderful mother in this shape is ripping a hole in my heart.