There are alot of things happening. In short..............She's been in the hospital for 12 days now. She was in for 8 days for weakness, abdomina; pains,
and not eating much. I mean, through a whole day, a half a bottle of Boost, 5 spoons of soup and a half a glass of water. They released her when all vitals
were good and she was eating solids and doing well. As her oncologist said, a hospital is for sick people.
She came home last Thurs and the next day was brought back by ambulance, BP 70 over 20! Very sleepy and dehydrated, weak, and very bad abdominal pains. After a CAT Scan they found she may have a hole in either her large intesting or stomach. Not sure how big the hole is either. Air in abdomen area. With all thats going on the operation would be very risky, and she may not even pull through it. After 5 docs confering they decided to put her in ICU and do another scan 24 hrs later and compare. Overnight Sat into Sun she was about the same, but her BP did go up to a more satisfactory #, 120's-130's over 40-60's. They said they want to hold off operating cause it would turn out to be more of an exploritiry and it would be too risky even for a healthy person. She is just on IV. She is to take nothing by mouth, not even water. They feel the hole may be pin hole size and can maybe heal itself with resting the whole digestive system. The keys are her abdomen pain , BP and white cell count. If all goes bad, operation. If all remain good and strong and pain level decreases, she could well be on the mend and getting through this.
Today, she is feeling much stronger. Vitals are good But not out of the woods yet. And this is what is scaring me. We are to meet tomorrow, my mom dad and I with the oncologist. I'm afraid he may have bad news about her pancreatic tumor.
Please pray for us. I know you will and I appreciate it.
Love ya!
She came home last Thurs and the next day was brought back by ambulance, BP 70 over 20! Very sleepy and dehydrated, weak, and very bad abdominal pains. After a CAT Scan they found she may have a hole in either her large intesting or stomach. Not sure how big the hole is either. Air in abdomen area. With all thats going on the operation would be very risky, and she may not even pull through it. After 5 docs confering they decided to put her in ICU and do another scan 24 hrs later and compare. Overnight Sat into Sun she was about the same, but her BP did go up to a more satisfactory #, 120's-130's over 40-60's. They said they want to hold off operating cause it would turn out to be more of an exploritiry and it would be too risky even for a healthy person. She is just on IV. She is to take nothing by mouth, not even water. They feel the hole may be pin hole size and can maybe heal itself with resting the whole digestive system. The keys are her abdomen pain , BP and white cell count. If all goes bad, operation. If all remain good and strong and pain level decreases, she could well be on the mend and getting through this.
Today, she is feeling much stronger. Vitals are good But not out of the woods yet. And this is what is scaring me. We are to meet tomorrow, my mom dad and I with the oncologist. I'm afraid he may have bad news about her pancreatic tumor.
Please pray for us. I know you will and I appreciate it.
Love ya!
So glad to hear that the pain is less, even if it's just a little. Will keep her in my prayers!
