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[ysobelle]

I just called my aunt. She's in the rehab section of her apartment building.

She sounds terrible. Just...awful. She's very depressed, she's not thinking straight. I don't know what I can say to help-- though logically, I do know there's nothing I can do. My dad says her neurologist says that the older one gets, the more the danger that this state becomes permanent.

This is killing me. It's killing her.

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[cypherindigo.livejournal.com]

How much of this could be a side effect of her medication?

Depending on what they are giving her, the depression and the "not thinking straight", may have some basis in the medication.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no, it's the postictal psychosis. We just have to wait for it to go away. She's prone to depression anyway, of course, but this makes it much more serious.

[snugglyevil.livejournal.com]

Get her to fight it. Seriously Hon, chat and talk with her as if nothing is wrong with her. Start planning to go out to lunch with her once she is well enough to get out (even if that may never end up happening, it does help the psyche of the person). Attitude and mindset are everything. My mom; being a geriatric nurse, suggested these things. Heh...I just found it amusing coming from Madame Negativity herself. She's been a Geriatric nurse for 30 plus years.Doctors know alot...they just underestimate the human spirit all the time.

*HUGS* Stay strong for her and never let her know you hurt for her.

[gretchen2149.livejournal.com]

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