I'm in a bit of dilemma, I'm cross but I don't want to rock any boats.
The background = my husband has stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he was admitted to hospital last Thursday as he hadn't eaten anything for days, he kept being sick, and his feet and legs were swelling up alarmingly. I had taken him the hospital a few days before where he had a blood test (which shown his sodium levels were very low), chest xray (cos a cough had developed), we were sent home with a course of antibiotics and two types of anti-sickness tablets. He's 80 years old and apart from his illness, his low sodium has made him confused and weak. He's also got severe mobility issues. Presently the doctors are baffled to what's causing his sickness and oedema in his legs and feet, they are presently carrying out tests. It maybe the Immunotherapy he's on that's the cause.
The reason why I'm writing, I visited him at around 10.20am this morning, and found him absolutely drenched in urine. Yesterday while having a wee, he fell on the floor while trying to pull his pants up. This obviously caused a panic amongst staff. Since then he's been checked over every hour or so to see if any bruising is developing. One of the nurses told him that he's not to attempt to get out of bed to wee and to just wee in the bed as he's wearing a pad. But it doesn't look like his pad has been changed for quite a while, his pad was dripping wet, all the sheets were wet, as well as his t-shirt. Someone had been pushing absorbent sheets under him to soak up the urine, he had about 4 or 5 of them. What with him being checked over every hour through the night because of the fall, and the amount of absorbent sheets under him, surely a nurse should have noticed and changed his pad? I washed and changed him while I was there and a nurse changed his bed. I don't want to make a fuss, but I don't want this to happen again either.
It's awful enough watching my husband, a very proud man, disintegrate. But to see him is the condition he was this morning, is just too much. I'm not too sure what to do, do I complain, or do I just put up with it? Am I expecting too much care for him. I don't know what to think...
