She told me there were taxi airplanes outside her window with beautiful lights, but lights dimmed near the pole outside, then there was the stairway up to heaven, she clearly saw it twice.
Then, there was the man standing on the roof of adjacent hospital building......
Then, she asked nurse who was the other patient in her room ( Mom in private room).
She told nurse she could hear them breathing, did the nurse check under her bed?
I can deal with anything as long as I am informed.
Any of you dealt with these things????
I began carrying little ear plugs in my purse, but I found that they were ineffective at blocking out hospital monitoring sounds.
I'm just guessing now b/c I'm not a medical person, but I'm wondering if the clots in her lungs affected her breathing, especially if she wasn't on oxygen, and there was enough of a deprivation level to cause the hallucinations.
Or maybe she was given Ambien; that can cause hallucinations. In fact, my sister and one of her friends who's a nurse were the ones who told about Ambien induced hallucinations.
Imagine trying to sleep at night in the hospital :P There is always some type of noise and talking in the hallways, thus a patient gets awoken numerous times, not to mention the lab techs that show up at 5 a.m. to draw blood. You also wake up not realizing where you are. The bed isn't very comfortable, and the TV is way up on the wall which makes it difficult to watch. Shall we chat about the food? Need to make a bathroom stop, you also have to drag in the IV you are attached to via the IV pole but it's plugged into the wall. And lets throw in a room-mate who has visitors around the clock.
Gosh that brings back memories when I was in the hospital and had a mild case of delirium. I couldn't wait to get home. The fire alarm going off at midnight didn't help matters, either.