and while we were chatting my uncle called me back and left a message like he forgot we talked. Very weird.
Assuming he's 70+ I'd check that sucker for a UTI. Then maybe elevated Ammonia levels. Ask me how I know! I've recently begun to wonder what percentage of older people assumed to have dementia have one of those.
Usually they are surgery, surgery, surgery. With certain specialties I feel like the PAs and NPs are doing so much emotional lifting for the surgeon (source, I have worked for 20 years helping NPs to assist surgeons). Sometimes the stereotypes are real.
According to an old roommie of mine who is a surgical tech Dr. Oz is great and communicative, everybody loves the guy, and if you need a surgery he performs get him if you can. So... back to surgery, Dr. Oz. Fucking do THAT!
My knee ortho always has a med student or resident working with her who comes in to talk to me first and they are usually kind of doofuses (one was shocked that someone of my advanced age wouldn’t want to be addressed as “Mrs. LastName.”
one was shocked that someone of my advanced age wouldn’t want to be addressed as “Mrs. LastName.”
That's so funny! Of course, my mother was always annoyed when a doctor didn't call her Mrs. Prior at first... but, to be fair, she was born in 1928. I can count on one hand the times I've been called Mrs. Anything. But Matt often got called Mr. Prior when I was in the hospital.
Feeling better if tired today. Yesterday was all day in bed at what felt like 1.2 Earth standard gravity.
And, most importantly...
Happy Birthday, msbelle! Enjoy your day, and may the year ahead be a good one.
Excellent post number lisah! I’m a few decades older and I think the only time I get called Mrs Holt is from DH’s players, which is appropriate.
Medical staff should ask how you prefer to be addressed!
He's only 68, Trudy. And I re-listened to his message and maybe he was referring to my dad not answering his phone, which is still weird but more in line with uncle's usual weirdness.
Still weird, but not seeming altered is good!
I've just been amazed at how quickly a UTI mentally impairs an elderly person, and how quickly they can recover once treated.
