My dh got up this am at 3:00 am/....peed on the floor and then slipped and fell in his pee. I had to call 911 and the fireman came and put him back in bed. My dog was sleeping in my bed and God love her I didn't hear my dh get up out of his hospital bed, but little Sophie barked and it woke me up.
I can't seem to keep him in that bed. Had rails and he kept climbing over the rails...Then hospice ordered a low boy bed and he keeps getting out and is so unsteady on his feet. Been crying since this happened...really shook me up.
I think he may have a UTI...been reading previous posts but they talk about not being able to pee...my dh is peeing excessively.....like twice as much as yesterday. No fever...no pain.
Waitin for it to be 8:00 am and will call Hospice and ask them to send someone out to give him a shower and change his sheets....he stinks.
Dado always has major pee issues, gets up 10 times a night, and goes needlessly in the day. But, it sounds different with your guy. Usually it seems they have a HARD time peeing , not excessive. Seems like a rotten time why on a weekend?? Just hoping here for a solution. Sadly, it may be a new horrid phase oh dear girl hugs to you.
Dado has been on a prostatitis pill for a few weeks now, don't know if it is changing anything. The only thing that seems to help his up and down is higher and higher doses of Seroquel.
Judith - hope you have gotten some answers by now and his bathed. Try to keep track of the foods he eats or even drinks - some can act as a diuretic. There is something in the wine cooler I drink that acts as a diuretic - I am up every two hours peeing more than I normally do. Regular wine doesn't do that. Some fruits or vegies can act as diuretic. Did he eat anything out of the norm? Take vitamins or drink a nutritional drink?
The nurse came out yesterday. She thinks the reason he was peeing so much is because he had so much fluid retention in his body. She checked for a UTI and he did not have one...thank goodness. I don't know how accurate the test she did is, but since he has no fever I am not going to worry about it too much.
She did order rails for his bed which I hope will help to keep him in the bed. I also order an alarm pad that you put on the mattress and if he gets out of bed the alarm goes off. He will not hear the alarm, but there is a device I can carry in my pocket to alert me and I can even go outside with it if I want to. No matter how many times I tell him, he just can't remember he is not suppose to get out of bed when I am here alone because I cannot put him back in bed.
DH pees all night long. Usually he gets up by himself and pees into a urinal. But the last 2 nights, he's woken me up to help him. Ugh. Last thing I need when I have to get up at 5 a.m. is to be awakened at 3. I have a hard time getting back to sleep.
Which would be worse: getting up to help him or cleaning up a mess? Neither is good, but tell yourself when you drag yourself out of bed at 5am it was better getting up to help than getting up to a mess in the closet or all over the bathroom floor.
He can't get into the closet; he's not mobile. He doesn't go into the bathroom to pee at night. Most nights he gets up and uses a urinal, that is on the side of the bed by his wheelchair.
He wakes me up sometimes because he is having a hard time getting out of bed.
I don't think it always makes a person feel better to be told "it could be worse." I know it could be worse.
There is always someone or a scenario that is worse. But I also know that doesn't make a heck of a lot of difference, when I have to go to work on a poor night's sleep.
I've had worse - I've had him pee and poop in the bed, and I've changed sheets in the middle of the night -- with him still in the bed, because he was too weak to get up. But having had "worse" doesn't do anything to mitigate the feelings I have when he wakes me up to help him pee two or three times at night.
Sorry...if I offended you or anyone. I certainly didn't mean it that way. Worse is worse is worse...it is all worse...when it happens. We all are doing our very best and meeting our spouses needs as they come from the beginning to the end. Actually, after my dh peed and then fell in it... it was a little bit funny the next day...but, of course when I was cleaning it up at 3:00 am and him too I didn't think it so funny.
This is the first experience I have had with this type of thing. And, I thought...why couldn't you (spouse) just do one thing at a time....pee on the floor and then maybe later fall...why did you have to do both at the same time. Then I had to laugh at myself...what a stupid thing to think. The poor darling can't help what he did and neither can any of the other spouses.
Please, if anyone is offended by my remarks...I am truely sorry.
P. Princess....caring out her official duties as always....I feel so badly if I offended someone. Last might my dh tried that getting out of bed to pee twice, but little Sophie (our dog) barked and alerted me. She is a fast learner.