Lou3892
Member
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2009
- Messages
- 10
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Diagnosis
- 07/2009
- Country
- US
- State
- NY
- City
- NEW ROCHELLE
Hello guys:
i've been trying to avoid coming back to site, because it stirs up a lot of emotions. My father unfortunately passed away on 4/24. I am so confused as to what everything that happened. he went into the ER because of his stomach, his belly was bothering him and was really distended. he ended up having his diaphragm being pushed up by his stomach distention. This caused him to have two respiratory failures that day. He was intubated and later was extubated successfully. To make a story short his gallbladder was inflamed and infected and he had colitis. he was able to breathe correctly and abg test were great, but he's belly was the problem. it would be somewhat distended and firm or distended and soft. I came into his room at the hospital with the nurse telling me that he had not had a good night sleep and they had given him morphine to ease the pain. The nurse said that he had said no more to the night nurse and to her, they had both understood that clearly. I should mention that the doctor had spoken to be the day before telling me that he was reacting to the antibiotics and that i just had to wait and see. Also, my family had agree to put him on the morphine drip, because the ostomy would have to remain in place indefinitely just in case this would happen again and that morphine would be applied on a regular basis. Going back to the story, he was not getting any better so he was getting really weak.----was this the right thing to do
i've been trying to avoid coming back to site, because it stirs up a lot of emotions. My father unfortunately passed away on 4/24. I am so confused as to what everything that happened. he went into the ER because of his stomach, his belly was bothering him and was really distended. he ended up having his diaphragm being pushed up by his stomach distention. This caused him to have two respiratory failures that day. He was intubated and later was extubated successfully. To make a story short his gallbladder was inflamed and infected and he had colitis. he was able to breathe correctly and abg test were great, but he's belly was the problem. it would be somewhat distended and firm or distended and soft. I came into his room at the hospital with the nurse telling me that he had not had a good night sleep and they had given him morphine to ease the pain. The nurse said that he had said no more to the night nurse and to her, they had both understood that clearly. I should mention that the doctor had spoken to be the day before telling me that he was reacting to the antibiotics and that i just had to wait and see. Also, my family had agree to put him on the morphine drip, because the ostomy would have to remain in place indefinitely just in case this would happen again and that morphine would be applied on a regular basis. Going back to the story, he was not getting any better so he was getting really weak.----was this the right thing to do