Postby janklo » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:37 pm
Poor Lauren, she got out of of the hospital from HIPEC Tuesday (6 days after surgery), feeling pretty good. Went home about 6, a friend drove her and then got her prescripts, made her potatos and bread for dinner and she actually talked on the phone with her boss all evening. Yesterday she was nauseous and everything she tried came back up even the anti-nausea pills. So she called the doc and got a liquid nausea med. A friend brought it over and she took some and then he made her rice for dinner and she kept that down with Sprite. She sounded better last night. Today severe nausea again, I could tell her throat sounded raw. She also had a temp of 101. She kept trying to call her doctor's office around lunch time, but you know how that can be. So she had a neighbor take her to the ER and they took her right in. They said she was SEVERELY dehydrated and so they are keeping her overnight. She has an IV and is taking sips of water and her fever is gone. Otherwise, all tests came back ok.
Since we can't be there (we are 10 hours away), she is going to ask the doctors about getting a home health care agency aide to come by her house every day and check on her and make sure she is ok. Otherwise she has to rely upon a network of friends, all in their 20s and 30s who work different hours and aren't well versed in medicine. I think that will be helpful and I hope her insurance will pay but otherwise she can afford it (she got a settlement from a former employer who fired her for cancer). That will make it easier for all of us!
UPDATE - Friday, Sept. 21 - The doctors think the problem is the built-up stomach acid so they are probably going to put in the old "ng tube" in to drain that stuff out and that will make her feel much better and stop the nausea and vomiting.
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janklo on Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Mom to 28 yo daughter
colectomy 2/22/10, stage 3C, signet cell
7/2011 peritoneal mets
HIPEC September 2012, difficult recovery
Hospice 10/31/2012, Died 11/16/2012