Dad

[Pam]

Is back in the hospital

Pancreatitis and a huge hematoma in the muscles on the right side of his stomach

This carries with it a host of other problems and right now my head hurts so bad I just can't get into it.

Please pray.

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so very sorry.

what's going on ? do they have any idea ?

[Pam]

Ok, so they did an ultrasound last night and doc comes in telling us about his hematoma. Looks awful but nothing that will kill him. Goes on and on about and finally my brother says, well what about the pancreatitis? Docs says what do you mean. We explain what the ER doc said and his comment was, lipase (the marker the ER doc used to determine he in fact had pancreatitis) usually goes up a lot with a hematoma. He has zero other symptoms and his pancreatitis looked completely normal. What a joke. How does a doctor not know this. He told us, including my dad, that he could die from it. Ok yes we will all die but for crying out loud how do you make that mistake. My dad was devastated.

So they may put a drain in, blood work will determine that. Otherwise, he will be fine as far as that is concerned.

And so it goes.

Good news is he is getting stronger. Walked up a flight of steps twice yesterday before all this. That is huge progress for him. I just want him home! I hate that transitional care place. It smells awful.

[Smoke]

Dr. Suck in general. Last time my Mom was in this idiot Dr. all but had her with a Colostomy Bag and all sorts of surgery's...She has Kidney stones but that was it.

Glad this isn't anything more serious than it is, He has enough other problems going on. Hope you can get him home too!..He would do much better in his own suroundings...I know my Mom does.

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good that you got that cleared up.

and the bad news is that docs are going to get even more confused in the exchange of info.

a minor thing, but i just had the same thing happen to me.

one GP doc tells me the x ray says this.

the tech says the x ray says that.

the specialist tells me the x ray says none of the above.

not reassuring.

i hope you can get your dad home ASAP.

[Pam]

doctors can be so frustrating.

Honestly we have to be our own doctors these days.

Wish I would have known that when I was going to school.

[Smoke]

Naw, they just would have taught you THEIR way and you'd be a dipshit just like the one's we go to.

[Pam]

I'd just like yo know more about how your body works, your hormones, it's a lot for an old brain to take in

[fish]

doctors are no more than mechanics working on a very complicated machine they did not design and that they know very little about.

medicine has advanced a lot in the last hundred years, but there is so very far to go.

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True but I think we might be better off if we had the same ethics as they did 100 years ago.