Mildly Demented Hospital Patients - Being a Fly on the Wall
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 by Tracey IngleI recently had back surgery that had me in the MetroWest Medical Center - Framingham Union Hospital for several nights. My last day and night I had a roommate. She seemed a pleasant enough woman. She had fallen and hit her head while living in her assisted living apartment. Sounds like it went undetected until she was suffering nausea, vomiting and being unbalanced.
When she arrived in my room she was accompanied by two daughters. Both stayed for a few minutes to make sure she was settled, showing her how to operate the television and her nurse’s call button. Then they were gone and the snoring ensued.
It was clear when nurses came in to talk with her that her competency was questionable at best. To her credit, she knew where she was but not why. She remembered living in the assisted living community, just not when she was last there.
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