Our father recently fell and broke his hip. While he had experienced mild memory loss and has been a little paranoid all his life) prior to the surgery to repair his injury from the fall, after the surgery he became horrified that he was in prison and that someone was going to hurt him. He has never taken serious medication, only aspirin and once in a great while, a mild prescription pain reliever for toothaches. He has been in perfect health. He is 69 and still athletic. Now his whole world has been turned upside down. The fall and surgery happened less than a week ago. Yesterday, he was discharged from the hospital to a rehabilitation center for physical therapy. In the middle of the night, he threw his walker through a window because he wanted out. The staff heavily sedated him and sent him to a psychiatric facility. This is terrifying to our family. He has been such an intelligent, reasonable man all of his life. Is it possible the pain medication has heightened the memory loss issue and is causing the great increase in paranoia?

Does anyone have any suggestions or words of advice for us? We are in uncharted territory without a clue! Thank you for listening and our prayers are with all of you who are suffering along with us. Please, Father in Heaven, heal our loved ones and bring a cure soon!