ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A resident of Waterview Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center has been hospitalized after receiving an overdose of medication, his family said. Thomas Pridgen was transferred to the hospital with a brain condition called encephalopathy, attributed to valproic acid toxicity.
Linda Suggs, Pridgen’s cousin, described his condition at the hospital. “Very much out of it. He wasn’t cognizant at all. He wasn’t able to hold his bowels, his urine. He was laying there almost in a fetal position,” Suggs said.
Doctors informed the family that Pridgen had an overdose of Depakote. That leads to elevated ammonia levels in a patient’s system, causing encephalopathy. “They immediately told us that he had too much of those two medications in his system and he was overdosed,” Suggs said…