I have some medical questions I am hoping someone can answer please.
My mother has not been doing well since her illness in April. She has been lossing alot of weight. Since May she has lost about 20 pounds. She has shortness of breath, and is tired most of the time. And is waking up in the middle of the night soaked from hot flashes. She had blood work done in May and her thyroid level was at the low end of the high range. Which to me explains the weight loss and the being tired aspect. The primary did not want to deal with it. He told her to see her endo guy. So she saw him and he schedualed her for a thyroid test that she just had done last week. It was some test where you go in and have pictures taken, then later that morning you go back and take a radiation pill and have more pictures taken, then you go back that night for more pictures, and then in the morning of the next day you have more pictures. She also had more blood work done last week. She saw her endo guy today and said that the blood work is still in the low high range. But for some one with a high reading the radation should have gone right through her, and it didn't. It took forever to go through her. So now he is confussed. He does not claim the shortess of breath, the hot flashes, or the being tired. He says that should all be heart related. Even though the heart dr. says no. However the endo guy is going to do a procedure on my mother next week. All I know about it is he is going to give her an extermly high does of radiation. To try to knock the thryoid down and then it will be so far down that she will have to take meds to get it working again. With this radiation he has informed her that there is to be no children around her for 5 days, no small pets, no human contact of any kind, no sharing silverware, or cups / straws, flush all toilets 2 times everytime she uses them, no elderly around her, and anyone inbetween old and kids needs to stay across the room from her. So my father is thinking about going up to the cabin with the dog for the 5 days, to save the dogs life.
If you ask me this sounds way off base. Any input from anyone. The endo guy did say that 3 weeks after the radiation she needs to have more blood work, then 4 weeks after that more blood work. She informed him of the cruise and he was really up in the air about it. He said at this point he will not tell her no, but he has to see blood results before he can give her an answer.
Mom has no decided that if she can get on the ship she will just sit on the verhanda for the whole 7 days. She has finally admitted that she can not handle being around children because of all the talking, and activity that they do. She took Mackenzie with my father to get ice cream after her appointment today and they were home 30 minutes later. It takes 10 to get to the place and 10 to get home. She was crying when she just told me on the phone that she can not handle the constant talking from Mackenzie and she really does not know how she will do the cruise.
Sorry this was so long.
for fighting for my moms life at this point. She has told me more then one time that I should have just let her go and no I am begining to think maybe I should have. She is not anywhere near what she was before ever getting sick. I can not help but think that I have caused her to live the rest of her life with a poor quality of life.
