It's only Day 3 and I'm already going crazy. Pa took a sleeping pill last night (Restoril). It makes him confused. He kept waking up in the middle of the night. He woke up at 1:20, 2:00, 2:05, 3:00 and 4:30 asking to have his blood pressure checked, take his medicine, and drink some water. It took me a while to figure out that's what he wanted. His speech is very garbled with his dentures out coupled with drowsiness from his pills. I got up at other times, too. He kept kicking off his blanket. Other times I'd hear him move thinking he's about to get up by himself, but he wasn't.
Tonight I put a few chairs against Pa's bed to keep him from getting up by himself. Maybe that will help at night. It won't help during the day though.
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