We went to visit my mother at the hospital last night. She's taken two of the three chemotherapy drugs and so far no side effects. Fingers crossed that continues.
She had a couple of instances of confusion and memory problems. She insisted that she was visited by people she wasn't visited by. She insisted that one of the hospital rooms she'd been in during this stay used to be her mother's apartment. She had a hard time listing off the grandkids by age.
The hospital staff has given her a couple of criteria that her body has to meet in order for her to be released. They told her that it might be possible for her to go home during the day, but come back at night. That seems a little odd, but she is showing signs of a condition known as sundowning, which is where patients with memory issues often see their symptoms get worse at night. All of the things we saw were after the sun went down, and probably weren't there at all earlier in the day.
We'll see what happens.
Fingers crossed.
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