Cancer Support and Caregivers Who Are Trail Blazers!

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by JustJo

I think we were typing at the same moments and you, my friend, are anything but an asshole.

She has a colostomy and says things are working normally....but she's also barely eating and dehydrated....so I'm not sure.

I'm dialing the hospital (again) as I type to see if she's settled in there yet....ugh.

Maybe in the end this hospitalization will be a good thing. Maybe it will get her strength back up resulting in her chemo treatments taking less of a toll on her. Something like 1/3 of all chemo patients have to quit due to weight loss and other side effects.

Please let us know how things are going.

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Maybe in the end this hospitalization will be a good thing. Maybe it will get her strength back up resulting in her chemo treatments taking less of a toll on her. Something like 1/3 of all chemo patients have to quit due to weight loss and other side effects.

Please let us know how things are going.

Nothing definitive....but I'm feeling somewhat relieved.

She's in the hospital, definitely there for at least a few days...getting IV fluids and back on the TPN so she's getting some nutrition. She sounds better..thanks to several IVs of fluid and some painkillers...but she also sounds far more relaxed to be back in the hospital.

They'll be doing some tests to determine what's causing the pain, but in the meantime they're most concerned about the dehydration and malnutrition. It looks like the TPN may become a longer term thing that will go home with her, and the oncologist said that he'll be ordering at-home care once she is released as well.

I haven't managed to talk to him yet and all the info is coming second hand through my mother and her friends....but it's an improvement to know that she's in good hands.