DH Punched Staff in the Head

I was told the staff is ok. But even if not seriously hurt, what if she is traumatized. There's no way to ease away my guilt and pain. This disease hurts so many people!

Quick update: With DH's roommate's family's approval, MC facility moved his roommate to a different room this afternoon. Now each has own room for the time being. I was told the family was really nice and understanding about the situation and agreed to the move. We were very fortunate that our neurologist was available today to agree to the new medication. Too bad, the prescription went in too late, and our Walgreens pharmacy closed early on weekends. So I'll have to pickup and drop off tomorrow. Even so, hope we'll have a quiet, peaceful night for all.

Iris, sprinkles is what the MC director calls it. It's depakote in sprinkle form.

It seemed that DH was having a fit because his roommate entered their room and he was screaming at and trying to push his roommate out (This has been happening for awhile now. The facility was in the process of getting in touch with the roommate's family to arrange to move him to another room. But before that could happen, DH had this severe episode.) Two staff tried to calm the situation. But DH was too belligerent. He's 62 and still quite physically strong. One staff was trying to protect the roommate and escorted him out of the room. DH slammed the door behind them. The other staff got stuck in the room with DH. She tried to leave and had reached for the door. This is when DH didn't allow her to leave, so he kicked her and punched her in the altercation. I'm guessing he was trying to keep the door closed so that his roommate couldn't return. No matter how you look at it, someone got hurt by my DH. That's not good. 😥😥

MC Director was not happy that they didn't call 911. More training needed for sure. We both agreed we missed an opportunity to transfer DH to ER to get his medication ironed out. His neurologist also said today that adjusting meds over email is not an effective way to proceed and that a visit to the ER and brief stay in the hospital may be needed next.

M1, No, I don't know where any geriatric psych wards are. Surely San Francisco UCSF or Stanford would have one?

Gampiano, do you mind sharing the dosage? We're starting at 125mg morning and night. And 2 more pills as needed during course of day.

Thanks, everyone. The MC director was very reassuring in terms of his confidence in being able to control my DH's behavior. His frustration is with our neurologist who is prescribing dosages far lower than the avg. in managing LBD behavior. They exchanged emails back and forth on Saturday and finally he was able to convince our neurologist to include Depakote. We shall see if this helps. Today will be full day of including depakote.

If there's any silver lining to be had, at least DH didn't strike his roommate, in which case, we could be sued and lose everything--OMG. Paying for a private room is small potatoes in comparison to a lawsuit. I had an anxiety attack yesterday in which I remained frozen for a few minutes. It subsided but left me in shock. Trying hard to breathe and stay above the water today.