The roses have been fed, weeded, trimmed and now I am in from the sun. Oh it smells so divine out there in the rose garden and actually out front period. What a sweet wonderful scent from the bushes fully in bloom! Not much better than that! I will soon be back to listening to the 3rd session of "Building Great Sentences" by Professor Brooks Landon, a writing class that I purchased from the Teaching Company, but I have to let out more steam and what better place than here on the blog.
I am awaiting return phone calls regarding my uncle Carl. I researched the medication recommended by the consulting geriatric Psychiatrist who is making calls to the facility where Carl resides. It is "resperidone" and if I had learned about this while I was in PA I would have had very swift action. He has been on it for two months and initially when he had a urinary tract infection along with an antibiotic. I noticed Carl is a bit slower but attributed it to the aging decline. I spoke with this psychiatrist who explained the need to keep him in a routine, etc. Yeah, well I know that too. But today I learned that this drug can have very severe side effects, including cardiac arrest in the elderly and that it is primarily for bipolar and or schizophrenic patients. OMG my Uncle has dementia, not that! I am really fuming about this, so there are going to be some answers today and or I will return to PA with a vengeance. Both the director of the facility and this psychiatrist are not going to ignore me. I am not uneducated in geriatric care having more information than the average bear from my professional career, so I will resolve this. I cannot understand why he would not have prescribed Aricept or Nomenda, both of which are commonly used drugs for dementia patients. Well we are certainly going to have explanations about this.
I created this blog to record our RV trips and ;morphed into life in our retirement lane and telling my tales of life. Now my tales of life are on widowhood, my new and probably my last phase of l I have migrated to Facebook where I communicate daily, instantly with family/friends all over. I write here sometimes. COPYWRIGHT NOTICE: All photos, stories, writings on this blog are the property of myself, Patricia Morrison and may not be used, copied, without my permission most often freely given.
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