It's Joe Day

But then, when is it not Joe Day?  This is the way my day went yesterday...

12:30 a.m. - Arrive home from emergency room.

1:30 a.m. - Finally crawl into my nice warm? queen-sized mattress in the living room to go to sleep.  And sleep I did, as did Joe.  However, I reset my phone alarm to ring at 7:30 a.m.when it went off at 6:30 a.m.  Not only was I still so sleepy and non-functional, but Joe was still sleeping like a log himself.

9:30 - 10 a.m. - When I got to the office and researched the information on the internet about the prescribed medications being added to his ever-lengthening list of medicines.  One of them was Seroquel which is used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia (a mental illness that causes disturbed or unusual thinking, loss of interest in life, and strong or inappropriate emotions). These tablets are also used alone or with other medications to treat or prevent episodes of mania (frenzied, abnormally excited or irritated mood) or depression in patients with bipolar disorder (manic depressive disorder; a disease that causes episodes of depression, episodes of mania, and other abnormal moods). Seroquel tablets are also used along with other medications to treat depression and in a class of medications called atypical anti psychotics. It works by changing the activity of certain natural substances in the brain.  Seroquel is not for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia. Seroquel may cause heart failure, sudden death, or pneumonia in older adults with dementia-related conditions.

This information was quite upsetting to read, so I called Dr. Fox's office to ask about this.  I was given an appointment to come in and speak with her. 

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Left office to go see Dr. Fox.  She told me that this particular medication is the best of this group of drugs - go ahead and get the prescription filled.  Then she told me she was going to have someone come in and talk to me about having Joe assessed at the local behavioral site.  It was determined that Joe would be a good candidate to be assessed and a phone call was made to let them know I was coming.

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Dropping off med prescriptions at Walmart to be filled and on to WBI.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Information given to intake nurse.  Went to pick up Joe at Senior Center to persuade him to come to WBI for initial assessment.

3:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. - Joe assessed by intake nurse.

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Dropped Joe off for balance therapy.  I went back to Walmart to pick up Joe's meds.

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Went by to pick up fast food for our dinner and await the arrival of our home teachers at 7:30 p.m.  Received phone call from WBI with number of psychiatrist that wants to see Joe.  Need to make appointment as soon as possible.

Two hours of work for me = $20.00 minus taxes.  The stress and strain is becoming greater every day.