My Mother is in the hospital...

ocgirl · 06-30-2007, 11:37 PM

I got a call from my dad this evening telling me that my Mom was taken to the hospital by paramedics in severe abdominal pain.

From what my dad says they think she has pancreatitis.
When she was here for my daughter's graduation my family noticed that she was not her usual perky self, and looked like she had aged 15 years.

I called the hospital and apparently she is sleeping.

She has a history of deep vein thrombosis with pulmonary embolism, hyperparathyroidism (high calcium levels-same as me, weird it's not supposed to run in families).

She never had surgery to remove the bad parathyroid gland so her calcium levels are still high and her osteoporosis is getting worse(after what happened to me when my parathyroid adenoma was removed was enough to scare her out of the surgery. I got tos during that surgery

)

Having worked on medical floors I know how over worked (and many new grads) those nurses are. I am somewhat fearful for my mother's life, not so much from the pancreatatis but from complications from dehydration (stroke from high calcium levels) or pulmonary embolism from immobility.

Her st*pid pulmonologist refused to put her on low dose blood thinners for the rest of her life contrary to what the AMA currently recommends for someone with a recurrent deep vein thrombosis.

Thanks for letting me vent. It feels good to share.
Martha

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