The photo sums up my feelings of the modern medical community.J's condition at the moment can only be described as purgatory. We will be 'celebrating' her 11th week in the hospital on Saturday.
After detoxing her almost completely off of opiates, Kaiser has decided to put her back on for pain treatment. She was doing well until about a week ago when the pain was just unbearable for her. Her nausea seems to come and go with less severity, though she is nauseous most of the day.
There has been a new medication added, one which will hopefully help her to retain more protein from the IV nutrition that she has been on for the past few weeks. The concern is that her protein levels are still at starvation levels even though she has been on constant IV nutrition. This is apparently due to reduced kidney function...the kidneys are 'leaking' the protein back into her body and not utilizing it. It is hoped that this will help her to feel better, as her protein levels rise so will her body's ability to function properly (so we're told). If this doesn't improve her condition in the next couple of weeks there is talk of starting dialysis.
Kaiser, please give me my wife back.
No comments:
Post a Comment