Re: Health problems since fall

Here's some new information:
My dad says he previously had blood in his urine once 10 years
ago. And the the cause then had not been investigated. He
remembers it wasn't as bad and they had given him some pills it
had cleared up. Last month, his D-dimer was said to have been high.
The broken ribs in December was said to be "more like a crack". The
eight rib had a crack. The ninth may have had a crack as well.

And here's an update:
While the CT Scan didn't show any thing's wrong, another doctor
phoned him today and told him there is a polyp on his kidney. The
doctor doesn't know if it's malignant. He's to call again next week.

Tony

On Jul 25, 8:28 pm, "t...@xxxxxxxxx" <t...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the responce. I'm from B.C.

My mistake: The Synthroid is 100mcg.
He's also taking Furosemide 20mg. And the doctor
recently gave him Centrum Select for 50+ .

He's been healthy for most of his life except for a liver
surgery about forty years ago. He still has his original
no-problem teeth and has never seen a dentist.

Thanks for the responce. We'll have the result next week.

Tony

On Jul 23, 9:49 pm, J <xnswex@nalid;"no> wrote:



Hi there,
I'm from Canada, ontario.

Constipation can be caused by a tumor, enlarged prostate, poor diet and/
or poor dentures, pain while chewing for some reason, swallowing problems,
hypothyroidism and probably a number of other issues.
I hope you mean 0.100 mg of thyroid replacement. If he's just been
diagnosed with that recently, they slowly increase the dosage. If his
thyroid is enlarged, they increase it until it -unenlarges but stays
within normal ranges.
TSH Normal Range : 0.35 - 5.00 mU/L
Free T4 Normal Range 10-20 pmol/L

There's a number of possible reasons for blood in the urine.
Some are listed herehttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003138.htm
They don't mention prostate cancer, but I think that's a ;possible as
well.
Lupus is listed there. My brother "diagnosed" my uncle with it (due to
butterfly rash and other signs and symptoms).
He was a bit younger than your father, at the time. Brother told him to
get to doctor and he did and was taken care of, medically as best possible
from thereon, but died short of 80 years old.   I think prostate/rectal
cancer, but can't remember for sure.  That was 20'ish years ago.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003139.htm
"Dark brown or clear urine is characteristic of a liver disorder such as
acute viral hepatitis or cirrhosis"

We just lost 2 uncles recently - other side of family, both early 80's
last year uncle fell or tripped and anpped femur near knee, so they
repaired it but analysis showed cancer (unknown primary).  They could not
determine which type of where the original was so all they could do is
radiation therapy after repairing the knee (for pain palliation and to
stop progression of that bone area. Later that summer he convinced the
surgeon to re-operate so he could ben his knee, instead of needing help
with showering and hopping from one place to another. He and his wife
wanted less "strangers' in to help. Unfortuately he developed pneumonia
after the 2nd surgery, undetected, no x-ray, no fever, and died in his
sleep.

The 2nd one had some shaking hands in March (this year) so we all thought
parkinson's.  While waiting for appointment with neurologist and MRI of
his head,  He felll while going to the bathroom and broke his hip.
They repaired that and got his MRI and neurology report in hospital. Mild
stroke, but meantime he'd stopped eating and was sleeping a lot.  So they
put a feeding tube in. His wife, my aunt said he suffered a lot. He died
of liver failure, cirrhosis and he was a non-drinker, non-smoker and had
been very active and healthy until then - no known reason for the
cirrhosis, unless he drank some tainted water during some of his travels
to various  foreign countries for vacations.

Sorry to be so long-winded.
I have some points.
Your father may be similar situation to this one I describe right above..
If it turns out the same, get hospice to help out at home. Feeding tubes
are cruel if a person will be dying soon.
Better ice cream or whatever he likes (ginger ale, beer, orange juice,
popsicle) and craves for hydration.
There's a limit of how much testing can be done on an older person -
"searching for a blood leak" - discomfort and risks to invasive tests,
often have to stay in hospital for long periods while tests are scheduled,
or one can't be done, until XXX days after another (etc).

I hope they find the problem and it's not too serious, but sometimes it's
hard to "fix" an aging body..
So if they give you bad news or choices and he'd be comfier at home,
visited by friends, neighbors, relatives, his favorite pet and "comforts",
do try to keep him out of hospital.

It's not easy losing our grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts (etc). They
meant the world to me.
Love him while you've got him and accept if nothing more can be done.
I'll be here caring and thinking of you all. please keep us updated.
Sending cyber hugs (assuming there's you and other family).
[[[[[hugs]]]]]]
Do you have family to support each other?
Great hospitals out there (BC?) I hope they'll be supportive of you all..
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