An Oklahoma Snowy Saturday...

Dad's new medicine may help with his appetite but it's not helping with the sleeping or dementia. Since last evening Dad has been hallucinating continuously. He went to bed about 10pm and woke me up at Midnight yelling out, HEY, HEY.....about 6 times. It took me that many HEYS before I could manage to get my achy bones to his room. There he is sitting up in the bed ready to stand up before I got there. He said he had to get his coat on because they were auctioning off his stuff. He said he had to get to them. I asked questions but he couldn't say who but they were in the living room....so I told him we will go down the hall and then he needed to go back to bed cause I need to sleep too.
We get in the living room and of course it was dark but he just said they were gone. There is no reasoning with him when he is like this. He has a different facial expression that shows me he is not really in reality. He is agitated in this state of mind. He thinks I am trying to cover up some sort of plot. It is very draining to deal with a person with dementia. I got him to go back to bed and I told him to sleep until the light was in the window in his room. I knew that was probably not going to work cause it is a continual problem and he won't rest. He did get into bed peacefully but was wide awake. An hour later just as I was really getting to sleep he yells out my name over and over. Rod had to work the next morning so again I try to get Dad quiet as soon as possible.
I get to the bedroom and he is standing and ready to head for the door. I sternly ask him why he can't wait and he comes back with I am too slow.....he says he has been calling for hours and no one came....he said if you want your sleep, you should plan your day better. Now that takes the cake.
Rod says yeah, maybe I should plan HIS day better and keep him from taking so many naps! LOL
So yeah, he is UP and wide awake today.....arguing at regular intervals about seeing people that aren't there and asking me if I see them or know them. If I say no, he says, "Oh you do TOO!" If I say yep I see them, he says, "Oh well, now you are lying." haha Mom always said Dad had an answer for everything and she was right.