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difficult child-dad hospital developments -- more of a brain dump for me
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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 371832" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Thank you so much.</p><p> </p><p>We met with the ICU doctor and my dad's internist yesterday. His kidneys continue to falter and although he's producing urine fine, the clearance of the various toxins and proteins is not what it should be. He would eventually need dialysis. His breathing was much more labored on the bipap mask, O2 stats were o.k. on it, but when he comes off it to talk to us, they plummet into the 80's. The fear and mental anguish in his eyes is painful to see. He is starting to have significant abdominal pain as well. The cancer is not killing him but the organ problems are. </p><p> </p><p>We decided to go ahead with reintubation as a temporary measure so that he could be sedated enough to ease his fears and not have to labor so much to breathe. We talked to dad a little to let him know the breathing tube would go back in so he could breathe easier. We said that we know he's very sick, but that we would not leave him and would do all that we could to make him feel better. Then mom asked him if he had any questions, and he shook his head "no". So it appears he doesn't want to know the specifics of the situation. That doesn't surprise me.. Dialysis may have to be addressed in the next few days. I just really hope we're not still here a month from now grappling with the same issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 371832, member: 3444"] Thank you so much. We met with the ICU doctor and my dad's internist yesterday. His kidneys continue to falter and although he's producing urine fine, the clearance of the various toxins and proteins is not what it should be. He would eventually need dialysis. His breathing was much more labored on the bipap mask, O2 stats were o.k. on it, but when he comes off it to talk to us, they plummet into the 80's. The fear and mental anguish in his eyes is painful to see. He is starting to have significant abdominal pain as well. The cancer is not killing him but the organ problems are. We decided to go ahead with reintubation as a temporary measure so that he could be sedated enough to ease his fears and not have to labor so much to breathe. We talked to dad a little to let him know the breathing tube would go back in so he could breathe easier. We said that we know he's very sick, but that we would not leave him and would do all that we could to make him feel better. Then mom asked him if he had any questions, and he shook his head "no". So it appears he doesn't want to know the specifics of the situation. That doesn't surprise me.. Dialysis may have to be addressed in the next few days. I just really hope we're not still here a month from now grappling with the same issues. [/QUOTE]
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