When I had a viral pneumonia as a kid, they tilted my bed feet up so the infection would stay up the top of the lungs and not settle down lower. I also had hours of sessions of nurses cupping their palms and paddling all up and down my back to loosen the stuff in my lungs so I could cough it up. I also had an ice bath to get my temp down quick. Now that was nasty. Once the doctor got on to the right antibiotics I started to recover.
You would think for Alzheimer's people they could have a tracker anklet with a certain range which would beep an alarm on your phone if it breached the containment range. They have something like that for dog collars, why not people with an anklet? Give the breast surgeon a miss today and reschedule.