All Through the Night

Well, that's what it seemed like last night, but I don't think Mary actually started talking out loud till about 4 AM. I slept so bady, it seems like I didn't get any sleep at all. Perhaps it was from resting so much yesterday, trying to recover from the cold I've caught form Mary.

At about 4:30 this morning I went in to see what Mary was talking about. She said I looked awful but couldn't explain how, so I turned on the light to show her that I looked normal. At first she agreed that I looked normal, but argued that she knew what she'd seen. Then she started saying again that I looked awful--that I had blood pouring from my nose and then from my eye and my forehead, that I had pins sticking in my forehead. This kind of freaked me out, as you can imagine. I mean, it's one thing for her to see people in the doorway or even up on the ceiling, but to see me like that! Also, she has always said that what she sees isn't scary and that was definitely scary. I told her it just wasn't true and turned the light off to get out of there as quickly as possible, since how she saw me disturbed both of us. She told me to make sure I kicked the man who'd done that in the butt when I saw him. I said I'd let him have it in the balls where it would really hurt. She replied that I should make sure he fell down. What an odd conversation! I told her I'd take care of him and left the room. She just kept talking, but I tried to sleep through it. I remember hearing her say something about ants later on. She also seemed to be talking to Bill (her first husband) several times.

This scary type of hallucinating makes me worried. I think this means she has a bad infection. Perhaps it's from the cold medicine I've been giving her, but her last dose was around 1 AM, so I don't see how it could be that. However, drugs do work differently in the elderly. It could also be the Levaquin, but I'm pretty sure she didn't hallucinate the last time she took it. Well, she only has one more day of it.

I'm going to start her on some cranberry pills today, to try to permanently get rid of her UTI. I don't look forward to it because she has to drink 8 oz of water with two pills twice a day. Trying to get her to drink a cup of water like that is like pulling teeth. She seems unable to just slug it back like I, or I assume other people, can. I looked at several products, though, and felt like this was the best.

At least she didn't have any chest pain last night. I'm so thankful for that! I'm wondering if I should give her that one baby aspirin a day at night. Who knows, though--perhaps she doesn't have chest pain during the day because I give it to her in the morning. Mom wants to start taking baby aspirins daily. I've got to call Dr R and make an appointment for her. Maybe I can do it at a time when I can go in with her. It's always best to have a second set of ears. I could also start a medical notebook for her. Not that she'd keep it up... It is hard to do, I must admit. Things seem so mundane, so you don't write them down, but then they turn out to have been important and then others seems so important, and you spend so much time writing them down, but in the end they don't mean much.

Hm, what to do about Mary's aspirin? Ok, I've decided. I'm going to keep it in the morning, but if I give her one in the night, I won't give her one the next morning.