Very scary night and day

I received a call on Monday that my mom had been at emergency all day.  I was out of town for work, so my sister did not want to worry me.  They did not know what was wrong and kept doing tests on my mom.  Finally at 9PM they decided they would admit her and have the Doctor read all the tests and do more in the morning.  At 1AM (Tuesday) they called my sister (who had just been home half an hour), that they need consent for emergency surgery my mom had taken a turn.

They took my mom to surgery (lap thank god) and found her bowel had died.  They told my sister that if they could not find what was wrong during lap surgery they would open her up and put a colostomy bag.  We now know the bowel had been dead for quite some time and we are lucky it did not perforate!

No one ever told us there was problems with the bowel, mom had been complaining since October about her stomach.  They had done an endoscope last week and found nothing.  Needless to say we are so happy they found the bowel problem before it perforated.  However, there was still lots of warning for them to find this before my mom got to the stage of a 104 temperature, infection and her not knowing who anyone was or what was going on they found the problem.

Point being--don't let the doctors tell you nothing is wrong.  She kept going back, and they just prescribed prilosec and telling her to adjust her diet.  We are lucky she is still with us and hopefully there are no after affects that haunt her.  We pray she comes home by Friday and is strong once again.

Wow!  That must have been scary.  I'm glad they found the problem.  Best wishes for her speedy recovery.

Thank you, she seems to be doing much better this afternoon.

D -

So sorry to hear about your mom!  That is very scary.  I agree with you, if you feel something is wrong don't accept the "nothing is wrong" answer!

I hope she has a speed recovery. 

Take care,

Thanks Michelle,

The Doctor admitted today she would have died had she not gone to emergency on Monday!  She is doing better today.

D,

So sorry to hear your Mom and you and your family had to go through so much.  But very happy to hear she is doing well and that everything is turning out ok.

Hugs,
Barb

thanks Barb,it was a long drive Monday night not knowing what to expect when I got here. Just got back from the hospital ans she is doing as well as can be expected. 

sry to hear about your mom I will be praying and keeping your whole family in my thoughts. God Bless

Thank you for the prayers 

Oh Dolores I am so sorry that your mother has gone through this and for so long. A lot of physicians tend to dismiss us women as "crazy" and ignore our problems. I am glad she is doing so much better. Please keep us posted on her recovery. You and your mother are in my prayers.