run n rate - 2019-01-01 1:16 PM Thank you all. December 11 my dad was still driving and going to lunch with friends, had gone to the gym and did his pool workout. He suffers from vascular disease from agent orange in Vietnam and the pool helped ease some of the leg pain. He has other issues also but for an 88 year old Korea and Nam Vet he was still giving em “heck”. December 13 his feet were hurting him very badly, by the evening his pain was so out of control I called 911. The local hospital transferred him to a bigger hospital. There they IV’d blood thinners to try to help with clots or blockages in his left foot, one toe was already turning black. He had had a bypass on that leg 2 years ago to save the foot. The next few days were a blur, then the doctors said he was going to rehab to get stronger before having the foot amputated. The next day they said he was coming home to get stronger instead because no rehabs were available to take him. We got him home the 26th, very weak but had some good moments. Then Saturday his pain shot up and we couldn’t get ahead of it, dad refused to go back to hospital. We stayed up all night with him trying to get some relief to him. Lameaway spray seemed to help the most, he could kind of rest for about 45 minutes at a time. Finally Sunday afternoon we told dad we were getting him medical help and he said okay. The ER doctor found that it appears dad’s trach had not been cleaned or changed while he was in the hospital the week before as we had been told it had, they had merely changed the old neck piece that holds the trach in place. We know it hadn’t been changed in fact because when they took it out to clean and change the trach dad had in appears that my dad had been cutting it off shorter and shorter in order to make it easier for him to put back in, and he had that trach in still. He has gangrene in his tie and another toe starting to die also, they hadn’t sent him home with antibiotics, just another blood thinner and orders to follow up with family doctor. Blood work came back with some indication that dad may have cancer also and into kidney failure. He is now on comfort care, we are at the hospital with him and he will be transferred to the care facility that my mom was at for her end of life care. We will be there with him also. I find it crazy how life has repeated itself . When my mom had gone into hospice care her last words were “I love you “ and a hug to my niece and nephew . Sunday night dad’s last words were “I love you “ to my niece. How appropriate that these people who gave us so much of themselves to all of my siblings and I plus a multitude of friends final words were I love you. Hug your loved one and tell them I love you. Every time.

run n rate - 2019-01-01 1:16 PM

Thank you all. December 11 my dad was still driving and going to lunch with friends, had gone to the gym and did his pool workout. He suffers from vascular disease from agent orange in Vietnam and the pool helped ease some of the leg pain. He has other issues also but for an 88 year old Korea and Nam Vet he was still giving em “heck”. December 13 his feet were hurting him very badly, by the evening his pain was so out of control I called 911. The local hospital transferred him to a bigger hospital. There they IV’d blood thinners to try to help with clots or blockages in his left foot, one toe was already turning black. He had had a bypass on that leg 2 years ago to save the foot. The next few days were a blur, then the doctors said he was going to rehab to get stronger before having the foot amputated. The next day they said he was coming home to get stronger instead because no rehabs were available to take him. We got him home the 26th, very weak but had some good moments. Then Saturday his pain shot up and we couldn’t get ahead of it, dad refused to go back to hospital. We stayed up all night with him trying to get some relief to him. Lameaway spray seemed to help the most, he could kind of rest for about 45 minutes at a time. Finally Sunday afternoon we told dad we were getting him medical help and he said okay. The ER doctor found that it appears dad’s trach had not been cleaned or changed while he was in the hospital the week before as we had been told it had, they had merely changed the old neck piece that holds the trach in place. We know it hadn’t been changed in fact because when they took it out to clean and change the trach dad had in appears that my dad had been cutting it off shorter and shorter in order to make it easier for him to put back in, and he had that trach in still. He has gangrene in his tie and another toe starting to die also, they hadn’t sent him home with antibiotics, just another blood thinner and orders to follow up with family doctor. Blood work came back with some indication that dad may have cancer also and into kidney failure. He is now on comfort care, we are at the hospital with him and he will be transferred to the care facility that my mom was at for her end of life care. We will be there with him also.
I find it crazy how life has repeated itself . When my mom had gone into hospice care her last words were “I love you “ and a hug to my niece and nephew . Sunday night dad’s last words were “I love you “ to my niece. How appropriate that these people who gave us so much of themselves to all of my siblings and I plus a multitude of friends final words were I love you.
Hug your loved one and tell them I love you. Every time.