Good News for Granny
Sep. 26th, 2007 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iesikaMy Granny has been in the hospital for several weeks now with illness of indeterminate cause. She's been very weak (can't sit up on her own or stay awake for very long) and has been completely unable to keep any food down. She's been vomiting bile, and has had diarrhea even after going on IV feeding, when her system should have been pretty much clear. Last week, they determined that her gallbladder was inflamed, and gave her something to calm it down (they cannot opperate because she is so weak and anemic). She has been so miserable that she kept telling my mom that she couldn't live like this much longer.
My mom and aunt, who have been with her, have been wondering where the diarrhea was coming from. During the brief periods when she was not suffering from diarrhea, she kept telling her daughters and her doctor that she was constipated, which her daughters thought was just her being a silly old person. The doctor wanted to do a colonoscopy, but she kept telling him she didn't want to do it because she's had so many and they never find anything. Yesterday, she finally caved.
It looks like nearly all of her problems may have been caused by a major blockage high in her large intestine. The doctor thinks its been forming for most of a year. So, technically, she was constipated, despite the dihorrea, and my Granny is a very smart lady (aside from refusing the colonoscopy at first). They started a full purge yesterday afternoon, and by the time I got off work today my aunt had called to tell us she had gotten out of bed and was walking around (feebly, but still moving under her own power for the first time in two weeks). She was very insistent that she needed the exercise, despite my aunt trying to make her rest.
My mom and aunt, who have been with her, have been wondering where the diarrhea was coming from. During the brief periods when she was not suffering from diarrhea, she kept telling her daughters and her doctor that she was constipated, which her daughters thought was just her being a silly old person. The doctor wanted to do a colonoscopy, but she kept telling him she didn't want to do it because she's had so many and they never find anything. Yesterday, she finally caved.
It looks like nearly all of her problems may have been caused by a major blockage high in her large intestine. The doctor thinks its been forming for most of a year. So, technically, she was constipated, despite the dihorrea, and my Granny is a very smart lady (aside from refusing the colonoscopy at first). They started a full purge yesterday afternoon, and by the time I got off work today my aunt had called to tell us she had gotten out of bed and was walking around (feebly, but still moving under her own power for the first time in two weeks). She was very insistent that she needed the exercise, despite my aunt trying to make her rest.
On a completely unrelated note, I'm on the communal computer in our kitchen right now and I can hear my parents having sex upstairs, which is very weird, but which I can handle. What is making me laugh, though, is that if I can hear them, my sister definitely can (since their headboard is just across the wall from hers) and she is an enormous prude who completely freaks out if my parents kiss in front of her (despite her being 19 and otherwise mature).
