The Lounge thread: Whatever you feel like......... Anything goes! Part XVI

[Juli-terp-to-be]

That's exactly what happened to me.

I also had some new AD user try to chat with me on AIM Blast just a minute ago. Didn't know the person and all he could say was I'm from AllDeaf. I'm like, well you haven't even taken the time to have 1 post, how am I supposed to know who you are, good bye.

did this person have a name that starts with a 'P'?

 

[KristinaB]

did this person have a name that starts with a 'P'?

yes - Pitti

 

[Juli-terp-to-be]

yes - Pitti

yup this person has taken my 'blocked member list' virginity lol

 

[Jiro]

That's exactly what happened to me.

I also had some new AD user try to chat with me on AIM Blast just a minute ago. Didn't know the person and all he could say was I'm from AllDeaf. I'm like, well you haven't even taken the time to have 1 post, how am I supposed to know who you are, good bye.

that's why my AIM has a privacy feature on.

 

[Firebrand]

Hey! I have a PM from Pitti and I'm a new member of AllDeaf! So......?

 

[Loghead]

Thats it....

Loghead is in my targets.....

Hmmmm?

 

[Loghead]

Hey! I have a PM from Pitti and I'm a new member of AllDeaf! So......?

Mhmmm. I got a visitor message from them. I didn't bother replying...

 

[Bottesini]

on Alldeaf.....I just an email from someone that I do not know. I'd rather not get another email from this person.

There are places to check so only people on your friends list can email or PM you.

And no, I am not her stalker!!

 

[Firebrand]

Thanks, Bottesini. I'll look for that feature in my user panel or whatever it's called.

 

[KristinaB]

How can I not get so frustrated with a person who has dementia and not have a hard time with it? We have good days and we have bad days and the doctor will not help.

This dementia was brought on by ICU delirium. She is 70 years old and has a few other medical issues.

I am not depressed or as bad as I have been before, I am really trying to deal with it, but sometimes I just need an outside voice to help me understand.

 

[Bottesini]

How can I not get so frustrated with a person who has dementia and not have a hard time with it? We have good days and we have bad days and the doctor will not help.

This dementia was brought on by ICU delirium. She is 70 years old and has a few other medical issues.

I am not depressed or as bad as I have been before, I am really trying to deal with it, but sometimes I just need an outside voice to help me understand.

Data from a number of studies and multiple disciplines have elucidated a chilling reality -- that cognitive dysfunction following critical illness is common, is associated with impairments in ability to perform normal everyday activities, decreased quality of life, and an inability to return to work, and may be permanent. ICU delirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction, is a life-threatening global disturbance of cognitive function that is highly prevalent in critically ill patients, especially the elderly and patients requiring mechanical ventilation. ICU delirium is reported to occur in up to 85% of critically ill patients.Although the exact mechanisms of ICU delirium are not fully understood, critical illness and its treatment has been shown to lead to de novo cerebral atrophy including white and grey matter abnormalitie

Sounds like a bad deal for your mother, really. Can you get something like a visiting nurse a couple times a week to get a break?

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/574656

Can you perform CAM-ICU assessments on demented patients?
Varying degrees of baseline dementia may be present in your patients, often having gone unrecognized. It is helpful to
know that features of delirium tend to be diagnosable even in the presence of dementia (Trzepacz, Journal of
Neuropsychiatry 1998.). In fact, we performed subgroup assessments of the performance of the CAM-ICU in patients
with probable dementia from both of our validation studies (as did Dr. Inouye in her original CAM validation study).
The CAM-ICU was found to be reliable and valid in patients both with and without dementia. These patients provide a
more difficult assessment, however. As much as possible, it is important to correctly identify the patient’s baseline
cognitive functional status and to differentiate chronic cognitive impairments due to dementia from acute changes in
attention and thinking due to delirium. We screen all study patents with surrogate assessment tools for dementia [i.e. the
modified Blessed Dementia Rating Scale or mBDRS (Blessed, Brit.J.Psychiat 1968) or the Informant Questionnaire on
Cognitive Decline in the Elderly or IQCODE (Jorm, Psychological Medicine 1989)].
The following definitions may help to outline the major distinguishing features between delirium

Delirium: A disturbance of consciousness characterized by an acute onset and fluctuating course of impaired cognitive
functioning, so that a patient’s ability to receive, process, store, and recall information is strikingly impaired. Delirium
develops over a short period of time (hours to days), is usually reversible, and is a direct consequence of a medical
condition, substance intoxication or withdrawal, use of a medication, toxin exposure, or a combination of these factors.
Think: rapid onset, inattention, clouded consciousness (bewildered), often worse at night, fluctuating.

Dementia: Development of a state of generalized cognitive deficits in which there is a deterioration of previously
acquired intellectual abilities usually developing over weeks and months. The deficits include memory impairment and
at least one of the following: aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or a disturbance in executive functioning. Patients with dementia
usually do not have inattention until late in the course of the disease. The cognitive deficits must be sufficiently severe to
cause impairment in occupational or social functioning, and they may be progressive, static, or reversible depending on
the pathology and the availability of effective treatment. Think: gradual onset, intellectual impairment, memory
disturbance, personality/mood change, no clouding of consciousness.

http://www.icudelirium.org/docs/CAM_ICU_FAQs.pdf

 

[JClarke]

Last night, I was informed that my father has been admitted into hospital due to an bad infection recieved on his arm, but he'll be fine

 

[KristinaB]

Botti - thanks for the links, I printed the info to take to my mother's next appointment. My MIL will not allow any more home health aides to come to house. She had a bunch with my FIL before he died and she's tired of them. I try not to bring people down, and I have tried not to bring this back up, but we've been having more bad than good lately and it's heartbreaking for me. I promise, I have figured out how to not let it depress me and so, in that respect I am doing better.

My mother does understand that there is omething going on and has also come to agree with me that it's better that she not drive and has agreed to turn in her license and get an ID card. That's one MAJOR hurdle. Now, if I can just get the doctor to understand my situation. Her biggest problems that he said would create issues with medication is, she has Hepatitis C from a transfusion years ago and the liver failure has already started, and she now has osteoporosis and is on medication for that.

Dinner time is the hardest, and so I have changed a few things to give me a break then. For school credit, my and experience, my kids each have a night where they have to cook dinner for the family. Also, so I don't have mother feel left out, with my supervision, she cooks 1 night a week. She still does all the laundry, and hasn't bleached the wrong load yet.

I do look for the positives like that, but they are getting less and less. Thanks for being understanding. You have been a bigger help to me than I think you realize and I am thankful for that.

 

[KristinaB]

Last night, I was informed that my father has been admitted into hospital due to an bad infection recieved on his arm, but he'll be fine

I do hope all will go well. I will keep him in prayer.

 

[Bottesini]

Last night, I was informed that my father has been admitted into hospital due to an bad infection recieved on his arm, but he'll be fine

Glad he will be fine. Is this like MRSA infection? The kind that resists antibiotics?

 

[shel90]

Oh no JClarke! Will pray for his speedy recovery!

Iam sitting in the parking lot waiting for my ex to bring our daughter back. He just texted me saying he needs to talk to me.COME ON..when is he gonna give me peace???!! What more bad news will I get? Geez :roll:

 

[Bottesini]

Botti - thanks for the links, I printed the info to take to my mother's next appointment. My MIL will not allow any more home health aides to come to house. She had a bunch with my FIL before he died and she's tired of them. I try not to bring people down, and I have tried not to bring this back up, but we've been having more bad than good lately and it's heartbreaking for me. I promise, I have figured out how to not let it depress me and so, in that respect I am doing better.

My mother does understand that there is omething going on and has also come to agree with me that it's better that she not drive and has agreed to turn in her license and get an ID card. That's one MAJOR hurdle. Now, if I can just get the doctor to understand my situation. Her biggest problems that he said would create issues with medication is, she has Hepatitis C from a transfusion years ago and the liver failure has already started, and she now has osteoporosis and is on medication for that.

Dinner time is the hardest, and so I have changed a few things to give me a break then. For school credit, my and experience, my kids each have a night where they have to cook dinner for the family. Also, so I don't have mother feel left out, with my supervision, she cooks 1 night a week. She still does all the laundry, and hasn't bleached the wrong load yet.

I do look for the positives like that, but they are getting less and less. Thanks for being understanding. You have been a bigger help to me than I think you realize and I am thankful for that.

Well I am glad. Although I don't think I have helped too much. One question, can someone with her health problems take something like Aricept to improve cognitive functioning?

 

[KristinaB]

Well I am glad. Although I don't think I have helped too much. One question, can someone with her health problems take something like Aricept to improve cognitive functioning?

I thought yes, but the doctor thinks her liver function will adversly affect the medicine or something like that.

You have helped a lot in the fact that as I start to feeling down or blue, I think of what you would say basically like "buck up kid, there's more to life than this!" Maybe not in those words, but something like that. Only you would be taking that whipping cane to the legs at the same time.

 

[shel90]

KristinaB! Hope things get better soon!

 

[KristinaB]

Iam sitting in the parking lot waiting for my ex to bring our daughter back. He just texted me saying he needs to talk to me.COME ON..when is he gonna give me peace???!! What more bad news will I get? Geez :roll:

Just offered up emergency prayer for you and your daughter.