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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad is 76 and for the past six months has had intermittent high fevers. I suspect that my dad has dramatically minimized this to his doctor. He saw his GP and at first the GP said just to wait; a few months later he referred my dad to some specialists, who found he was anemic and had low white blood cell count and might have unidentified internal bleeding. The last few days my dad has had high fevers with delirium; he doesn’t know where he is or what’s going on.

My mom, like my dad, tends to minimize all health problems and has even said that she “doesn’t believe in doctors.” So they aren’t taking him to see a doctor until his follow up appointment with his GP in about a month.

How concerned would you be, if you were me? Fevers with delusion seem bad to me.

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OP-both my parents have had this and it was UTI's. Sepsis is a danger at this point-if he has a high fever it's time for a 911 call! Have him brought in-he needs that, it is a life endangering event at that point.[/quote]

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