Fw: Need Sleep

[Guest guest]

>

> Subject: Need Sleep

> To: LBD_caringspouces

> Cc: " Thor Cornelius "

> Date: Monday, October 3, 2011, 2:49 AM

> Hi,

>

> It's pass two in the morning and I can't sleep.  I'm

> wishing there was someone live, in person, I could

> call.  I need to be somewhat alert today to help my

> husband who is in a skilled nursing facility for

> rehab.  I know many of you have been in my place; tell

> me please how you handled it and got through it.

>

> was hospitalized for seven days as a result of

> complications from a UTI.  It's our first UTI and

> happened just about the time I threw my back out and

> couldn't help him much.  Now he is in rehab and I'm

> wondering just how much rehab he can actually benefit from

> with his LBD. He is in a wheelchair and stiffens up whenever

> he is moved; he has difficulty talking; hates the puree diet

> he has been put on and hardly eats.  Can he really get

> back to where he was before this happened?

>

> I'm wondering about my options after discharge -- I'm

> thinking I have two.  1) Take him home and hire help

> around the clock.  2) Place him in the same board and

> care down the street where my mother is living.  Having

> strangers in my house scares me; but these lonely sleepless

> nights is difficult.

>

> Just writing this, I know now I have to wait and see how

> his rehab turns out.  If possible, he deserves to

> return home and if sometime down the road he isn't able to

> function at home, there is always option two.

>

> But, how does one get adequate sleep without medication.

>

> Thanks for listening.

>

> Teri

>  

>

>

>