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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother has been ill for quite some time and do to HIPAA he is not telling anyone the full story and we cannot find out. If anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. Personally, I think he is terminally ill and I think he may have cirrhosis. He is going to be 57 and has been drinking for at least 35 years. At least 3 years ago he was told to never drink again. He is still drinking, He has been hospitalized to drain fluid and has had confusion. He has fallen a handful of times. His last hospitalization was last week. He was in for 5 days. Supposedly his sodium level was high, he was dehydrated, so weak he could not walk and needed an aide to sit in his room with him. I stopped in to see him last week at home, he is walking with a cane, is on disability, is frail, has aged (I am 11 years younger and the nurse asked if I was his daughter), not eating and my sister-in-law said she found a stash of Jagermeister. Apparently he has to have PT because he is weak and a nurse comes to visit. His wife does not have permission to speak with his doctors. He does not answer me when I ask him health-related questions. He has had intestinal issues since he was born and has been hospitalized because of that as well. However, I think he was hospitalized because of alcohol and just used this as an excuse.[/quote]

Based on what you have written your brother is dying and he probably does not have long. If he has stopped drinking and is taking his medication correctly he could have longer, but there is no recovering from how far along you describe him to be. My father died at 57 from complications of cirrhosis of the liver. He died very suddenly from veins bursting in his esophagus and then bleeding out very quickly. He never quit drinking and towards the end he stopped going to the doctor and stopped taking his medication.          [/quote]

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