My grandpa was perfectly coherent and normal two days ago. He then fell down and sprained his ankle so we took him to the hospital. We went to visit him tonight and he was a totally different person. He had a fever and kept telling us all that the FBI was coming and that they were trying to poison him and he was kicking and punching doctors and nurses. When he finally calmed down he still wasn't making sense and he was breathing heavily and his left arm kept shaking. It was sad becuase we never had seen him like that. We thought it was a reaction to the antibiotics he was on. I went home and checked online and read an article on Sepsis which is an infection of the entire body that coudl be 50% fatal and the symptoms are fever, disorientation and usually stem from some type of injury to the body....
i feel kind of helpless right now since its 1215 am and i can't go to the hospital and do anything about it but it just bothers me that the nurses thought he was a crazy old man and didn't take it seriously. If I find out tomorrow that this is the cause I will be very angry and upset.
link to sepsis: http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/sts15452.asp?navbar=
anyne have any experience with this disease?
i feel kind of helpless right now since its 1215 am and i can't go to the hospital and do anything about it but it just bothers me that the nurses thought he was a crazy old man and didn't take it seriously. If I find out tomorrow that this is the cause I will be very angry and upset.
link to sepsis: http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/sts15452.asp?navbar=
anyne have any experience with this disease?