Gun Control Reform Activism
In reply to the discussion: My 93 year old Alzheimer's father pulled a pistol on his caregiver: [View all]nightscanner59
(802 posts)It still sucks, but I do possess the resources, resolve, medical experience and ways around dad that my family has no clue of. Just to assure you: Travel CT tech here, and I've worked with countless demented patients in over 15 hospitals for 22 years, never met one I couldn't easily, safely subdue and eventually scan. Only the young ones have ever had to be sedated.
I feed him q2-3h, and he drifts off most of the day. Watches FOX, can't comprehend any of it anymore. Now he does not even cogitate the channel change. However:
I have had to safely physically restrain him until he slept again before, on previous visit, see further. I can usually just distract him away when I see a spell coming. If I don't: He is 93 now, weak as a kitten, very little to almost no "force" required to quell his outbursts. He combats the pillow protection with all the fierceness a fly can muster, no harm done. He's mostly frozen with arthritis, "handle with extreme care" stamped on. Mom witnessed the outbursts, approved and agreed, glad for my protection and would scoff at his demands to dial the police. Soonafter, he drifts off and remembers nothing of it. As he is worse now, reportedly he drops within a minute of agitation. She has been injured by him though and is safehoused until I arrive.
No, there are no highly reasonable alternatives for this case, I have to go. I am uniquely qualified to "handle" him. There were only a couple of these outbursts upon previous visit, just over a year ago. He mostly just hurls insults and expletives now during.
BTW, doc involved will have no problem with my medicating him pro re nata as well.