[kelsh]

Hi Crazy,

My husband is not in recovery since he didn't have a problem with alcohol like I did. He is 72 and experiences Halucinations when he gets a low grade fever which leads to a lack of enough oxygen going to his brain due to lung infectioins.

I have a background of working in the medical & mental health field so am able to take care of him at home if we catch his fever soon enough to start the tylenol.

He has been in the hospital for this many times over the past eight years & seems to get more confused when he gets there. The last time the nurse restrained his one leg so he couldn't get out of bed....but that just made him angry and irritable.

I had told them the higher his fever goes, the more he halucinates...& the ordering him around when he can't understand what is going on makes everything worse.

They didn't give him anything for his fever in the ER until the doc called me at home because he did not know the past history of his hospitalizations....I told him that it should all be in his file...and at this time his fever was up to 102 degrees the doc told me.

He just had another episode last week & I kept him home...he did go see his doc the next day but didn't have to be hospitalized. This is a scary time for me and he seems to enjoy his escapades but does not want to be ordered around so I talk positive and put it in a way that he has come up with the idea & it works.

kelsh