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Any blood sample drawn would I believe be delivered to the doctor who scripted for the monitoring. At one point my father's cardiologist handled in the monitoring, in his office, but the volume grew to the point that he contracted with the anti-coagulation clinic of a local hospital.
The comments from the anti-coag pharmacists as to prescription refer to Coumdin refills. They, not the cardiologist, call in the scripts and refills to the pharmacy.
In our metropolitan area there are about 4 anti-coag clinics, all affiliated with hospitals. To my knowledge, they don't provide any in-home monitoring, but it's possible some clinics do.
Suddenly they were on their own. I wouldn't say it was terrifying, but it definitely was unsettling. When someone has dementia, I think it would be terrifying.
Can you or someone stay with your mother for a few days, and work with the home care team (which I assume she has) to help your mother acclimate? She may not, but at least you'll have given her as much support as possible.
If you don't have visiting home care (nurse, PT, OT and aide), call her primary, internist or gerontologist and ask for a script. If she has help reacclimating, it might help ease her fear. She's probably terrified of falling, especially in a 2 story house.
Is there a way you can adapt the first floor so she can live there until she's more comfortable at home? If it's a bathroom issue, a commode can help during the acclimation period. She can take sponge baths; I would think a shower is out of the question right now given her fears.
I do hope you can find a solution; this must be so disheartening.
Does your mother have home care, including a visiting nurse? This is my experience and understanding based on what our visitinig nurses have told us.
A visiting nurse can draw blood for PT/INR if she has a script to do so. The sample would be delivered to the patient's PCP for analysis.
I don't know whether they could deliver it elsewhere, but I asked our pharmacists at the anti-coagulation clinic we attend. They were polite but adamant that they will not prescribe and/or monitor PT/INR values unless they themselves draw the blood.
So basically, we still go to the Anti-ag clinic for blood draw. I do understand their position; they need to be absolutely sure the blood was drawn properly, under sterile conditions, and that it is in fact the patient's blood.
So, yes, it could be done, but the question is who would then analyze it, and would you want that to be a primary care or internist? In our experience they have nowhere near the experience that the anti-coag clinic pharmacists have.
Apparently anyone with Alzheimer's, depending on the stage, needs to follow an exact routine, and any detour from that routine really confuses and frightens the patient. That sounds like maybe what is happening to your Mother.
As for you bringing your Mother home, don't keep blaming yourself, you actually thought everything would be ok. Give it time, hopefully your Mom will get into a routine.