Reply to Significant weight loss, refusal to see a doctor

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Significant weight loss, refusal to see a doctor"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]116 pounds?  Is he 5’2?  Because if not that’s almost skeletal.  I’m sorry OP.  Please get your finances and accounts and documents in order.[/quote]

He’s shrunk down to 5’5”. It was a UTI. And yes, he’s practically a skeleton. Antibiotics didn’t knock it out, and so we went back and they gave him another prescription. Brought up the weight loss, they said oh you’ve only lost 2 lbs bc he’s now down to 114. I was like, what?! [b]They didn’t make any big deal of it maybe bc he was there for the UTI[/b]. WTF.[/quote]

Push back on that every time you see it. My mom was in the hospital recently and the various specialists she saw absolutely had tunnel vision. It was awful and would have been almost comical if it weren't so serious. Any new symptoms she was experiencing were always initially explained away by something related to their field, whoever's care she was under at that point, and by the time they brought in the next doctor and figured it out she was in much worse shape than she would have been if someone had thought to look beyond just their specialty from the outset. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics