Sudden, severe physical and mental decline

[rsolte]

My 73yo mother has had a physical decline since December where she went from being able to walk to barely using walker. However, mentally she was fine.

Then about three weeks ago, she had a sudden, severe physical and mental decline. They admitted her to the hospital and treated her for a severe UTI, kidney infection and kidney abscess. They put her on broad antibiotics and she was very slowly recovering.

The mystery is that they are now saying that her infections are cleared up, yet she has started to decline greatly again to the point where she is practically in a vegetative state.

The doctors can’t figure out why.

We are grabbing at straws and looking for hope to figure out what is causing her to continue to go downward, when she was mentally fine and even walking in December 2023.

[shadowmed]

I am glad they are looking into those two possibilities. It must be a really difficult time for you both

[shadowmed]

I’m so sorry to hear this. I am not a doctor but I presume they are looking at sepsis or mini stroke? It may be a different infection.,I do hope she recovers well

[rsolte]

Thank you so much for your well wishes...it genuinely means a lot. They ruled out stroke, but are looking into a different/reinfection.