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rebecky_moSo after 3 weeks in the hospital, my mom finally came home last Thursday; she needed home care to come repack her incisions, and she still had the drain in her, but she was home.
Almost immediately, her appetite disappeared, and she got nauseous. She drank very little, and ate a hair above nothing. She was weak. Today she went back into the hospital to find out what the hell was causing it, and was re-admitted.
She'd been seeing two different doctors in the hospital after her surgery, and upon leaving, one of them reduced her daily prednisone without consulting the other doctor. She wound up going into prednisone withdrawals, resulting in all of her issues upon leaving the hospital. She's been getting some serious I.V. all day, and will be in the hospital another few days.
I am so F***ing angry at my mother's doctors, I can't even describe it.
They were both working on my mom during surgery at the same time. Do the doctors not even talk to each other about post-op/release treatment? Especially regarding medications?
To make things worse, from the sound of it, one of the doctors may actually be to blame for my mom's fistula (and resultant surgery), as it took him a few times to get the drain into the abscess. He may have punctured something. My dad's thinking of sitting in on one of the doctor's meetings, and possibly considering legal action. We'll see how things go.
Almost immediately, her appetite disappeared, and she got nauseous. She drank very little, and ate a hair above nothing. She was weak. Today she went back into the hospital to find out what the hell was causing it, and was re-admitted.
She'd been seeing two different doctors in the hospital after her surgery, and upon leaving, one of them reduced her daily prednisone without consulting the other doctor. She wound up going into prednisone withdrawals, resulting in all of her issues upon leaving the hospital. She's been getting some serious I.V. all day, and will be in the hospital another few days.
I am so F***ing angry at my mother's doctors, I can't even describe it.
They were both working on my mom during surgery at the same time. Do the doctors not even talk to each other about post-op/release treatment? Especially regarding medications?
To make things worse, from the sound of it, one of the doctors may actually be to blame for my mom's fistula (and resultant surgery), as it took him a few times to get the drain into the abscess. He may have punctured something. My dad's thinking of sitting in on one of the doctor's meetings, and possibly considering legal action. We'll see how things go.
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Date: April 27th, 2011 07:30 am (UTC)~distant roaring? something about incompetence and doctors who shouldn't be allowed within five feet of ANYONE??~
~hmm. it seems so~
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Date: April 27th, 2011 12:23 pm (UTC)I just feel for my mom; I actually got to see her at Easter, and she's in rough shape (her packing is brutal). Healing is going to be hard enough on her, she doesn't need doctors who don't communicate to make things that much worse.