Nancy, thanks for the well wishes...it's good to know that it is common for older folks to get disoriented when this happens, we are having a devil of a time with the night staff at his rehab. RIght now he goes into bed every night just completely on guard that the night staff is going to harass him, disrespect him and out and out yell at him. I do believe that they are simply losing patience with having to remind him where he is, and remind him that he does not need to stand up to use the bathroom(he has a catheter), and that he will just be waking up repeatedly. On the other side, he is completely wigged out at night and says the craziest stuff, so I'm not sure if he is even perceiving the staff as they are and not inflating it. They are not abusive, but they really have him on edge.
We are hopeful that when he gets to his surgical appt. next Wednesday, and out of this rehab, he will relax.