She's Back In The Hospital Again.

[Janet]

Mom just got out of the hospital on the 6th and now she's back in again. I was taking her to her Dr. on Monday to have blood drawn. She was getting out of breath easily again and that is one of the symptoms when she is low on blood. Just getting her to her Dr. was exhausting for her and she was having chest pains too. I decided to take her straight back to the hospital ER.

I was with her till about 10 last night. They did a chest xray and found fluid in her lungs and when compared to the xray taken last weekend...her congestive heart failure showed it had worsened in a weeks time. Her ankles were swollen too so they did give her some lasix (sp) to make her pee more and used a higher percentage dialysis fluid to help take off some fluid. It did help, her ankles were not swollen today and the Dr. said he couldn't 'hear' fluid in her lungs. Her hemoglobin was good too...10.5 so she wasn't losing blood.

The were going to give her a stress test today, but she was terribly constipated. They had given her laxatives, soap sud enema, some kind of 'cocktail' to make her go and nothing. She was in so much pain she was just crying. Her kidney Dr. just happened to come in and Mom just loves him. He gave her a big hug and then told her he would do everything he could. Finally.......she went. It caused her to be very shaky so they postponed the stress test until tomorrow. They will give her meds to make her heart beat faster and use some kind of dye. So she'll be in for at least another day.

She's not really understanding what this heart failure means....she asked if they could give her some meds to make it better.

It makes me so sad to see her getting more fraile and seeing her cry in pain.


Also....found out my husband's uncle had a heart attack and was in the same hospital, different floor. It was a bad one and if he has another...he won't make it according to the Drs. I spent some time with him before I left the hospital.

I'm really feeling a bit exhausted with all this.

[Lindsey]

I am so sorry Janet. My thoughts are with you.

[DianaB]

Janet, I'm so sorry to hear about your Mom. You have to be exhausted after her being in the hospital twice. Just make sure you take care of yourself too. Hugs.....and I'll be praying!! Give your Mom a hug from me!!!

[gja1000]

I'm so sorry, Janet. It sounds like the heart failure is getting worse. Don't worry about her not understanding, I don't think Gary really understands heart failure either and he's had it for 7 years! The stress test should tell them how bad it is and give them a better idea of how to adjust her meds.

[Blueyes]

I'm so sorry for you and your mom! It's a very frightening, exhausting time. I hope and pray that she doesn't have much more pain like that, poor thing. Try to rest when you can. My prayers are with you.

[Marilyn]

Janet, you know how much we all care and that our thoughts and prayers to go out to you. Huggs!!!!