Will someone be released from hospital if their gastrointestinal bleeding has not been stopped? I know you are not my doctor or my father's doctor but I don't expect medical advice - just your experience on what will happen next. My father has been in hospital for a week. He had only admitted to feeling 'a bit under the weather' for about a week before he collapsed. There will be more inside... Once in hospital he turned out to be very anaemic. They gave him blood and did an endoscopy which discovered stomach ulcers, and told us that explained the anaemia and he'd be fine after 3 days of treatment to get rid of the H pylori that caused them. But then he needed another blood transfusion and then another and another. Finally (yesterday) he has admitted he's been losing blood when going to the loo - he outright lied every time they asked about that, and also convincingly lied every time he was asked if he had any stomach pain. I was there. He should have been an actor, he was totally convincing.
Dad was starting to seem confused for months and very confused at times in the weeks before this all blew up. I was afraid he had Alzheimers (he's 83) but he refused to see his doctor. Now I wonder if that was just a side effect of his anaemia because since they gave him blood he seems much sharper mentally. So I am not his carer and maybe he has told the hospital not to tell me anything. He will be coming to my house when he leaves the hospital - which they keep saying 'could be tomorrow'. Clearly he is not ready to live alone yet and I wouldn't want him to! But his release from hospital keeps being delayed because they decide he needs more blood - so he must still be losing quite a lot of blood I suppose? The nurses are busy and don't want to speak to me. What if I bring him home and he collapses again? He is not a big man but he was like a dead weight, my husband and I could not lift him. Surely they have to stop the bleeding before he will be safe to leave? Now that I know what a convincing liar my father can be, I am unable to trust what he tells me about his condition.
Dad was starting to seem confused for months and very confused at times in the weeks before this all blew up. I was afraid he had Alzheimers (he's 83) but he refused to see his doctor. Now I wonder if that was just a side effect of his anaemia because since they gave him blood he seems much sharper mentally. So I am not his carer and maybe he has told the hospital not to tell me anything. He will be coming to my house when he leaves the hospital - which they keep saying 'could be tomorrow'. Clearly he is not ready to live alone yet and I wouldn't want him to! But his release from hospital keeps being delayed because they decide he needs more blood - so he must still be losing quite a lot of blood I suppose? The nurses are busy and don't want to speak to me. What if I bring him home and he collapses again? He is not a big man but he was like a dead weight, my husband and I could not lift him. Surely they have to stop the bleeding before he will be safe to leave? Now that I know what a convincing liar my father can be, I am unable to trust what he tells me about his condition.