Margaret Has Been Transferred to Noosa Hospital

I checked out of the hotel early yesterday morning and drove straight home to offload our luggage.  I phoned Nambour Hospital to check when Margaret was being transferred to Noosa and as it wasn't to be until the afternoon drove back to Nambour to visit her.

 When I arrived she was in a terrible condition.  Apparently she had given them problems overnight including demanding wine with her dinner.  The silly nurse asked if she was an alcoholic.  I told her that Margaret has had a couple of glasses of wine with her dinner for many years and I asked Margaret where she was and she replied. "On Holiday!".  She just wanted, what I had last night, a drink with her dinner which by the way she didn't eat anyway.  She had been heavily sedated so was really confused.

Overnight she had been given three units of blood to counter the loss caused by the break and had been on a saline drip to ease the load on her kidneys.  After I arrived she kept trying to get out of bed and she had to have the rails up.  She had also removed her sling and cuff and her arm was just dangling.  I sat with her from 9.00am until 2.00pm and she was rambling most of the time.  She had no idea where she was or what was happening.  At least the nurses began to realise that she was just really sick and confused.  The Geriatician said that he was worried that her renal function had got worse but had decided to not to to another blood test.  She was put on another drip prior to her transfer to Noosa at 2.00pm.  She still hadn't eaten and was just sipping water occasionally.

When Margaret was taken down to await her ambulance transfer I drove back to Noosa and picked up Louis from kennels,  took him home, gave him some water and a big bone and left him.  i went to the hospital to find that Margaret had arrived just minutes before.  I was able to complete her admission paperwork and get to her room just as they were setting up her drip. 

I sat with her from 3.30 pm until 7.15pm and was concerned that she did not have her bed-rails up and when when she tried to get out of bed to go to the loo put them up myself and called the nurse.  It took two nurses, with me manoeuvring the drip, to get her to the loo and back into bed.  She is really weak and later she was drifting in and out of consciousness.  She kept telling me that she could not do it but didn't know what she could not do.  She also cried out in pain on several occasions but did not really regain consciousness.

At 6.00pm I asked when she was going be seen by a doctor and when she was goint\g to have any painkillers.  Her specialist had gone home before she had arrived!  At my request they gave her some panadol and called the duty physician to write up her medications otherwise she would have received no medication or other treatment  until some time today.  I left at 7.15 pm to get something to eat as I had not eaten sing 7.00 am.

Helen phoned me at 7.45 pm to say that she had phoned the hospital and the physician had made sure Margaret had had all her medications and had given her a sedative to enable her to sleep.  She still hasn't eaten.

Obviously I shall get to the hospital early today to try and catch her doctor.