terlis | 07-21-2010 12:53 PM | Good thoughts for my Mom Please My mother has had colitis for over 40 years and has a routine colonoscopy yearly. This year a growth was found that wasn't there before. It was biopsied and said to be noncancerous. She was scheduled for and had a bowel resection to remove the growth to prevent it turning into cancer on March 19. During surgery a artery was lacerated and we almost lost her. She went to ICU postop and was not expected to live. At 1 am we were called back to the hospital and she was taken back to the OR to stop further arterial bleeding. She survived this as well but barely. The growth was then said to be cancerous but not spread to lymph nodes. Her kidneys and liver failed due to massive blood loss. She was on a ventilator for 3 weeks and required dialysis for 6 weeks. She recovered, to everyone's disbelief, to the point that her kidneys started to work again and her liver was recovering. During one of her dialysis sessions however she had a respiratory arrest and need to be on a ventilator again for almost another week. Her recovery from all this has been extremely slow to say the least. She has no appetite and has been unable to take in enough nutrition or enough fluid to keep her kidneys working. She has now had a feeding tube inserted due to her malnutrition. With all this she still has abscesses from her surgery that are still draining, along with a colostomy that she was initially not going to need and a feeding tube through her abdomen, which was inserted a couple of days ago. She was recovering to the point that she went home for over a week but had to return to hospital due to malnutritiion and dehydration. She is extremely weak and now not able to do what she could a couple weeks ago.
My mom needs all the prayers and well wishes that she can get. She is only 70 years old and was very active before all this. She walked into the hospital 4 months ago and has never been that same since. She has received the best medical attention and would never have survived to this point without it. But I am getting very worried now.
Please keep my mom in your thoughts and prayers. Her name is Margaret and she is very loved.
Thank-you |