My Wife is Back in the Hospital

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We came in around 11 PM EST last night because she was complaining of stomach pains.

They did a cat scan and discovered an obstruction in her colon. They can't entirely make it out as there was too much shadow to make heads or tails of it. So tomorrow they are going to knock her out and place a snake camera to follow down her colon to see what it is that they're dealing with. They noticed food is not passing down through her colon, so she's on a liquid diet until further notice.

Also, she hasn't been able to urinate since last week Thursday while they did a urine test by using a urine cath to withdrawl urine from my wife. Since then her diaper has been bone dry for a week. She can't voluntarily urinate due to my wife being a renal patient. But, she can "drop it", as it were, if she coughs or when she goes to sleep as her muscles begins to relax, she drops it involuntarily.

Today they withdrew her urine by a cath tube and her urine was brown, so this shows a sign of urinary infection. They took the sample to the lab. So if it's anything that can be treated by medicine, hopefully it will clear it up and be back to her usual self.

Hopefully whatever the obstruction is in her colon, it can be broken up easily non-surgically. But I hope she won't require surgery to remove it.

Keep her in your prayers.

Thank you,

Yiz
 
Will do. As a caregiver, please take care of yourself, too.
 
yizuman,

im hope your wife get better soon if not they will get home nurse or not that your decision to watch your wife its so hard..i didnt know about your wife got hospital again i respect that but none of my busniess.

if doctor will operation on your wife or not we have wait to find out what doctor says..

im sure your wife cant get restroom self i understand i know doctor will research on your wife's lab what wrong im hope not get cancer or REAL!! I know its hard for you.

many million people cant get restroom self if got serious sick till death use adult diaper..

but you can chose home nurse or hospital nurse that your decide for sake of your wife's health..

my mom is also Register Nurse (RN) she can care of patient in heart unit Care Criticial Unit where she care of patient but she not include in surgery..

i want say im sorry about your wife's health i will pray for you and your wife if she got better or worse no matter if she strong..

PM me
 
Hope she gets better soon and that they take good care of her. Sending positive thoughts for both of you.
 
Hi folks,

My niece drove me home. Here's one thing we know of today.

The doctor ran a snake cam down her throat and found fungus in her stomach that is obstructing her digestive tract. Plus on top of the obstruction is a week's worth of food that has not been consumed. So they're gonna drain it out tomorrow via tube through her nose. Then snake cam it again to see what else there is to see.

In the meantime, the doctor is ordering a special anti-bodies that will also treat the fungus to clear it out of her stomach so her digestive tract can then be free to consume food.

As for her urine sample, no word as of yet regarding her lab tests to explain why her urine removal turned to be brown. May not hear about it until Monday at the latest. But she's def staying for the rest of the weekend.

My wife is crying because she's very hungry, but she can't eat or drink anything except on a crushed ice diet until they can fix her stomach problem first. She's pretty frustrated and she's taking it all out on me. :( :cry:

Keep her in your thoughts, no matter how small.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers,

Yiz
 
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Yiz, hope your wife gets well soon and will be able to eat again. Hang in there, you are in my prayers.
 
Update:

My wife's x-rays results came in this morning that was done last night. Apparently there sections of her colon that shows damage. One part is flattened. Another part shows an enlargement. So we're not sure what the doctor will decide how to fix this problem.

As for her urinary tract, she's still not leaking urine as she should be, so I dunno what will be done about it, other the fact she gets dialysised that will remove parts or all of that fluid.

I will post when I learn more.

Yiz
 
Hang in there. We are all still thinking of the both of you and sending good thoughts, prayers and energy.
 
Geez, sounds like your wife's condition's getting worse. I hope in time, whatever treatments she recieves will improve her health.

Hang in there
 
Update:

My wife finally had her first bowel movement about 1/2 hour ago. She's back to eating, but on a liquid diet. The doctor wants to see how she does on food a little bit at a time before deciding what's the next step should be.

Nothing regarding her urinary tract infection yet.

About all I know for now.

Yiz
 
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Glad she is making progress. I hope things continue to improve.
 
She just had another cat scan done today, prolly won't hear the results until tomorrow or Monday at the latest.

Her bladder is still unable to empty on it's own, so if she's gonna get discharged with this problem still existing, then I need to speak to the discharge planner to have them call the in-home nursing company to plan to have special supplies sent to our home and a special nurse to come visit her often to manually remove her urine, especially on weekends when she's not being dialyized. This is very important or she's gonna get sick again if this isn't done.

Anyway, keep up the good thoughts and prayers for a good coming home and good plans in place for her so there won't be any difficulties in the future.

As for her colon, she's eating well and not showing any signs of discomfort or pain, so that may be good news that her colon damage is healing itself.

Yiz
 
Yiz-

I have been offline due to a computer crash. I am very sorry to hear about your wife's issues. I have been praying and will continue to do so for both her and you. You need to take care of yourself also. Make time for your own needs as well.

Please continue to update us on her progress and I will continue the prayers.
 
Ouch...

Hope they get all of that taken care of!

Good luck with everything!
 
My wife has returned home. There are plans made to help with her bladder problem. Spoke to the doctor prior to her being discharged from the hospital. He made it clear that since a bladder can hold up to 20oz of fluid, but since their observations during her stay at the hospital, my wife develops 2oz of fluid each day, so there is no worry about her retaining too much fluid on a daily basis.

The doctor will contact her renal doctor to make arrangements to have her fluids manually removed at the renal center, if not, his office is one block away that after she gets done being dialyized for the day, the transport can swing by his office where they can help remove any fluids present in her bladder prior to be sent back home. So it's all good in handling her problem.

As for her colon, she's showing no problems and not feeling any pain after eating and her bowel moments appears to be normal, cat scans yesterday afternoon showed no problems with her meals passing through as it should.

So, all in all, she's back to normal and in good health.

Glad my baby's back home with me.

Yiz
 
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