Sorry to hear that and hoping for the best. Is this a condition she's been dealing with or is this something out of the blue?
I'm so sorry that you are going through this, I will pray for you and your family. My advice just stay on top of them until she gets out ICU. My family and I took turns with my grandparents, it's hard but well worth it since time is so precious at this moment.
Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes. Thankfully, she is resting well now, and has not had any episodes in the last day and a half, and she is getting another endoscopy today to check on the ulcer and clips. Doc said the tissue where the clips are on will die and the clips will pass in about 5 days. I'm just worried that the ulcer will bleed again if it has not healed enough.
It came out of the blue. She had just seen her doctor on Wednesday, but aside from her not having a good appetite, there were no indicators of the ulcer. Her having dementia makes it near impossible for us to know of something like this, and her stool did not show any blood until she had a bm while in the emergency room. She's been taking Naproxen for awhile because she has severe knee pain, and I'm assuming that's what caused the ulcer, but the doc is testing for h-pylori. Her labwork should be back soon.
All the best for your Mom, FT. I know you and your family will hang in there, but it's a tough thing to go through. That she has dementia puts an entire added layer of worry you all have to deal with. We went through a lot with my late parents, but that was not one of them. It's hard for me to imagine all that piled on top of her and the family.
It's horrible. I pray nobody here has to go through this. I think she's taken 8 units since she got here, if not more.
Another thing is that my Dad had signed a DNR (Do not revive) just hours before this happened. The doctor had not signed off on it so the rapid response team revived her. As much as I'm going through, I cant imagine what my dad is going through.
The dementia must be very hard to deal with in addition to the other problems and I can see how that would make it very difficult to address other conditions. Hoping for the best for you and your family and I'm sure all of us here don't mind if you vent on Clutchfans. Has your dad been the primary caregiver? That's gotta be very tough on him too.
My dad retired to take care of my mom, and does have help from a caregiver for about four hours a day. The funds from the fundraiser I put up helped pay for that until his insurance finally started helping with that.
