My 89-year-old Uncle Harvey (“Great Papa” to his grandchildren) is recovering from a bout of severe disorientation and regression that turned out to be due to a meds reaction.
When Dad told me about it, I said “sudden onset means a meds reaction” and I was right. Unfortunately it took the hospital longer. He’s in rehab for a bit; the meds that caused the reaction were to help him with much milder issues like falling and forgetting, so he won’t be able to go back to living alone.
My cousin-in-law Robert has been his steadfast companion through all of this, repaying, in a way, Uncle Harvey moving to be closer when Lauren and Robert were suddenly the parents of triplets and Robert’s depression took a downturn. (Triplets are now 30, older sister is 33? or so.)
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Date: 2019-07-24 10:41 am (UTC)When Dad told me about it, I said “sudden onset means a meds reaction” and I was right. Unfortunately it took the hospital longer. He’s in rehab for a bit; the meds that caused the reaction were to help him with much milder issues like falling and forgetting, so he won’t be able to go back to living alone.
My cousin-in-law Robert has been his steadfast companion through all of this, repaying, in a way, Uncle Harvey moving to be closer when Lauren and Robert were suddenly the parents of triplets and Robert’s depression took a downturn. (Triplets are now 30, older sister is 33? or so.)