Dad and the Hospital

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My Dad is going to be 87 in May; maybe. Dad lives up in Iowa and after finding out last night about his hospital visit and surgery, I'm surprised he's still around today. Dad has been suffering from early Dementia over the last 3 years but it has gotten much worse over the last year. His wife (not my mom) has been spending as much time away from the house as possible but the other day she got really mad at him because he showers about once a month. She forced him to take a shower and when she saw he had a huge spot on his leg that was infected, that's when she took him to the hospital. Apparently Dad has fallen several times and when he got to the ER, Adult Protective Services was called in because they thought he was being beaten up. They removed enough poison from his leg to fill a cereal bowl and they also found a blood clot that had already made it's way up to his testicles. In his mental condition, he has pulled his IV's out multiple times and has been yelling and screaming, so they have had to put an alarm on the bed and security at his door. My half-brother said that when he is released from the hospital they are going to put him in a secure facility. Hopefully it's one with bars on the windows and a locked door with security on staff because knowing my Dad, he will be extremely violent and try to escape. I also found out that my youngest sister has been in the hospital 3 times over the last 3 weeks with Pneumonia caused by her COPD. She now weighs 80 pounds, so I don't know how much longer she'll be around either. She lives in Nebraska.