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@jeanadair123 Sometimes it is difficult to know the right course of action to take for our loved ones. We believe the health care providers know best, however in the case of a patient with dementia, the physician should have known to handle this situation differently. Unless your husband’s life had been at risk, he should have let him go home and return the next day for the test. Everything your husband endured while spending the night there couldn’t have been good for him mentally or physically.
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Luckily when I went this morning he seemed okay, no restraints but I called before I went. The doctor who was going to schedule the Lexascan came to talk to me before he did it, he was super nice and suggested that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to do it with his dementia and he wanted to know I felt about it, I was totally on board since it was a stress test. He took me to a computer and went over all his tests with me. Super super nice. He said that he could go home then. But I have to say his wrists are black and blue from the restraints, I have not mentioned this to him since he is just happy to be home and is currently taking a nap in his recliner outside, it is 75. Lesson learned this will never happen again. I told my girlfriend and she said in the past she was told by some facilities that they do not use restraints that they are against the law. This I shall check into. Thanks for replying.