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What wildness! I keep thinking it'll slow down and it does briefly, but then off again... My mom was recovering from surgery. Did fine for about a week. Then a little nagging cough; she felt draggy, just didn't seem right. Well, she isn't right. Clear chest x-ray, blood cultures are negative, but then they're calling into to be admitted to the hospital, saying her kidneys are down to 50% functioning. The orders say "renal failure". What's up with that?? Then they say that her kidney function was only 60% when they did the surgery? Nobody felt that was necessary to mention, apparently. Then I find out that she's been on Feldene for years. But they're taking her off it. When I look that up on the internet, I find out that it's for arthritis pain (which I didn't know she had so severely that it would require prescription pain medication for YEARS!) Also, it's an NSAID and I heard her tell the doctor that she has been taking Naprox Sodium for pain. Then I found out that she had also been on a diuretic (I don't know why--) and the Feldene says it's touchy with diuretics. Oh, BTW, she was dehydrated and has blood in her urine, which could be from DEHYDRATION! Now they did say that her kidney function is better today, because she's off the diuretic and the Feldene. BUT, and it's a big one--she has a sac of some kind that has grown in her abdomen since the surgery! No wonder she had lost no weight whatsoever even though she was eating less than half of her normal intake. She felt full all the time. So, tomorrow they're going to stick a needle in it and draw out fluid. She told my dad that if the fluid was clear then things were okay. OKAY??? I guess the thing driving me nuts here is that she is usually very detail-oriented and on top of things. She's been complaining about other relatives lack of supervision regarding their family medical care, so it never occurred to me that she was making stupid choices with her own stuff. For goodness sakes, double-dose NSAIDs with a diruretic to wash it down! She's a terrible patient. I'll bet she told the doctor five years ago that she had some arthritis soreness in hands, the doc threw a prescription at her and she's been taking it every day for YEARS--nobody every checked into whether she should take that much, etc. I wonder if she even knew it was an NSAID. I am the sandwich generation. It will only get more difficult.
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