Over the past week or so Mom had a lot of abdominal pain, coupled with the inability to have a bowel movement. The pain became too much, and Wednesday morning Byron and Colleen took her to Beaumont's ER. She was given some dilaudid for pain, and had a CT scan of her abdomen (which the ER doctor said was the most puzzling one he had ever seen due to her colon resection back in the early 1960s).
The medical team's consensus was that she had a sigmoid volvulus (a twisting of the sigmoid colon). A gastroenterologist performed a sigmoidoscopy, which we hoped would take care of things so we brought her home. Unfortunately her abdomen is still distended and hard, and she's been in a lot of pain plus vomiting. The hospice nurse recommended we bring her back to see if more fluid could be removed and make her more comfortable, so we came back to Beaumont where we are as I write. Please keep her in your thoughts.
The medical team's consensus was that she had a sigmoid volvulus (a twisting of the sigmoid colon). A gastroenterologist performed a sigmoidoscopy, which we hoped would take care of things so we brought her home. Unfortunately her abdomen is still distended and hard, and she's been in a lot of pain plus vomiting. The hospice nurse recommended we bring her back to see if more fluid could be removed and make her more comfortable, so we came back to Beaumont where we are as I write. Please keep her in your thoughts.
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