The family called an ambulance, which took Mrs Whitla to the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald.<\/p>\n
She needed to be given oxygen, had low blood pressure and her heart rate was dropping.<\/p>\n
Mr Gibson said doctors initially thought something else may have happened to her given her level of consciousness. <\/p>\n
But he said they later told him the cause was an antidepressant from his mother’s medication.<\/p>\n
She began to regain responsiveness in the evening and was finally able to get out of bed again by 22:00, 13 hours after she took the medication.<\/p>\n
After this she suffered from severe confusion, which continued in the following days.<\/p>\n
“Granny wasn’t with us, she was away with it,” Mr Gibson said.<\/p>\n
“Her confusion level was just off the Richter scale.”<\/p>\n
She is now recovering at home, but Mr Gibson said she was still not back to normal.<\/p>\n
“She still remains confused,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Like any 87 year old, my granny could be a bit forgetful, but prior to hospital admission that’s as far as it went.<\/p>\n
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