I wanted to apologize for not getting back to everyone the last couple of days have been bad. Today I had to bring my mom back to the hospital. She is very weak and fragile now and the doctors say she might have pneumonia. We were just there a couple of days ago and I asked about that, but her blood work all came back fine. Today has been the scariest day so far for me. When we left the house like so many other times to go to the hospital something about today feels different. I don't know what it is, but something.
I believe that she is in the hands to care for her and that they will do everything for her, but I have to keep asking myself this question why wasn't this found sooner? The same symptoms have been going on for weeks. She has seen countless doctors for this and NO help. Today when we got in to the ER ( I knew the doctor ) he looks at me and says " Shes staying either here or at Rhode Island Hospital " Just last Wednesday a different doctor said she was okay with the same symptoms. This does not make sense to me. Even when her Oncologist saw her last Tuesday she said that the blood work was fine and chest xray where ok.
It seems to me that doctors of any speciality look in a linear line and not out of the box. Even now when I brought her in to the hospital I asked the doctor why her blood work did not show anything? His response was sometime that can happen with patients. My thought to him was could it be due to all the immune suppressant drug? Then the Decadron causing a false White Count? The answer he gave me was YES. Then why didn't the doctor that saw her 4 days ago look in to that and start treatment?
Thank you everyone for listening to rant.
Scared, lonely
Dan