Mom is no longer being tested on but now focusing on comfort care in the hospital...
My mom (73) was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia in the frontal lobe. It was an extremely sudden decline. She was paying bills over the phone to full blown in the hospital a month later. She's been in and out of the ICU and "the floor" for four months bed ridden. She was originally hospitalized because she was severely malnourished, loss of appetite, and severe muscle atrophy due to using Mounjaro for three years. She had to be assisted to get out of bed and bathroom. She kept fainting.
At the ER they found out she had acute decompensated heart failure and acute kidney damage which she ended up recovering from but unfortunately she was already so weak from her GLP-1 usage she became completely bed bound and too weak to cough or eat with out life support. She's alive still because of the PEG tube in her stomach.
She is also suffering from chronic plural effusion in her lungs even though all her organs are fine now. Her fluid is also fine but it's just a lot of it. The doctors can't figure out why she keeps getting fluid in her lungs. Her heart is fine, her kidneys are fine. She doesn't have cancer.
She suffered a heart attack last week Thursday and they spent ten minutes giving her CPR due to mucus plugs. She advocated for herself for DNR and no tracheotomy the day after. Doctors are giving her about a week or so. She's silently aspirating on her saliva which will probably turn into mucus plugs or pneumonia and cause another heart attack like last week.
I was hoping to get her outside in the hospital atrium if she makes it to Saturday because it's suppose to be in the 80's and sunny. She's been stuck in the hospital since February and I just want her feel the warm sun and air one last time but the hospital staff doesn't think that'll be possible since she's completely bed bound and can't sit upright in a wheel chair.
I already did say my goodbyes to her so any extra time she's around is a bonus. I'm just grateful I had the opportunity to say good bye since not everyone does. We never ate as a family together except during holidays or events so I'm planning to make some food so we can all eat together in her room.