Through the summer and into September, Nana was in a rehab center. Many from our family visited her there and wrote about the experience. One of the most troubling experiences for families is the loss of recognition of people they have known for years. By this point, Nana was mixing up many people in our family. This is also the point where we started to realize that Nana simply was not going to get better from this time forward. We were into the slow decline.
Sept 5, 2006 – my sister in law
I am glad we came up to see Nana last weekend but I am so sorry to hear she is not getting better. I am also glad K and R are visiting. Though Nana didn’t really know who we were, she was really happy to have the four of us visit – we stayed for about 3 hours, had a good (though cyclical) conversation and looked through lots of old photos.
Sept 5, 2006 – my cousin
Here’s the latest:
Mom talked to Dr. G yesterday. He told her he thinks that Nana will be miserable and die if we send her to a nursing home for the next 6 weeks to get antibiotics. He also said that the drain for Nana’s cyst will be in for the rest of her life. She will need to go in periodically to have CT scans and have the drain repositioned, but that can be done on an outpatient basis.
Nana’s cognitive state hasn’t improved.
It sounds like at this point it’s just a waiting game. Nana isn’t going to get better.
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