Elder Care Tips and Monthly News

Elder Care Tips and Monthly News

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10 Free Recipes Designed for the Elderly Diet

Whether you are looking for better, healthier recipes for you or you are cooking for your elderly parent or grandparent. These 10 free sample recipes are designed to help you keep the dietary restrictions that your elder may have due to heart disease and/or diabetes.

Are you concerned about the sodium content in prepackaged food? Has your elder been placed on a diet to help treat a medical condition? Have you longed to find recipes that are easy to prepare and can be cooked ahead of time so your elder and just warm them up?

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• Cook Low Fat/Low Sodium/Low Sugar or No Sugar Meals
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• Prepare Soft Foods Great for a Denture Wearer
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Fri 10/26/2007 11:48 AM

So, It's Friday, and Dad is back in the hospital.  We took him in last evening.  His doctor did some lab work last week (was done from the home health service) and the results were not too good.  All the lab work was abnormal.  His sodium was high, his potassium was low.  He has another infection in his urine, pseudomonas again.  That is what he had last month.  And of course, the only antibiotics that works on this bug is an IV antibiotic.  So Dr.D. told us to bring him into the ER.  Sara called me a few minutes before the doctor, and she said he wasn't looking too good.

I got him to the local ER about 5pm and Anna showed up a few minutes later.  They got an IV started and gave him a 1000ml of sodium chloride (which I don't really understand since his sodium was high, but again, I am not a doctor) and then started the antibiotics.  I can't remember the name of it, because it was a different one than he had been on before.  It took them up until 10:15 pm to get a room for him.  Not sure why, it took so long this time.  The ER was slow, so I guess they didn't need to bug the admit dept to get them upstairs, so they could free up the rooms in the ER.  Who knows.  But the nurse got him checked in pretty quick and we were home at about 11:30pm.

I called to check on him just a little while ago and Liz said that he was ok and looking a bit better.  Gosh these infections just make havoc with him.  At least this time his blood pressure is up and we don't have to give any drugs for that and he isn't in the ICU this time, just a regular room.

Hope all is well with all of you.  Will keep you posted.  Anna and I will be up at the hospital this weekend and my guess is that he will be there for a few days at the minimum.

Have a great weekend.

Love and hugs,  Mary

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