need medicine to help sleep

Hi,

I posted a few days ago about my Daddy having diarerrah(sorry mispelled)We are having a terrible time trying to get him to sleep at night. While he was in the hospital with complications from gallbladder surgery they tried haldol, demoral, ambien, benedryl, ativan and temazepam. None of these worked. They made him very restless and kind of out of it. No sleep. Is there anything else that we can try? We are fixing to have to put him in a nursing home because for some reason he can't pee and they had to put a cathater in him at the hospital and when he got home, he pulled it out. The home health nurse told us that he would be better off in a nursing home because he might bleed to death if he pulled it out one too many times. He didn't even know that he pulled it out. We have to watch him like a hawk. But I really would like for him to be sleeping at night before he goes to the nursing home because I don't want them to drug him up. That would make matters worse.  If anybody has any ideas I would really appreciate it.

Dorseys daughter

Thanks for your reply, we had to put Daddy in the nursing home today.

Dorsey's daughter

Lyn,

He is doing fairly well. They took his cathater out but he wasn't able to pee on his own so they had to put it back in. The next step is to see why he can't go on his own. But he doesn't want to be there. I think that he thinks that we don't want to fool with him is the reason that we put him there. If he hadn't pulled his cathater out, he would still be at home. But we were afraid that he would pull it out again and bleed to death. The situation is hell on us kids.  Thanks for asking.

Dorseys daughter