by bluepinecones » Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:31 pm
It has been a very long 10 days since my sister was hospitalized. Not sure we are much farther along in knowing what is wrong and she is still declining. She was evaluated twice for surgery and doctors say her odds are of survival are so bad it is not worth the risk at this point. As of Friday, doctors had exhausted all non and minimal tests they can - most have come back negative, inconclusive, or "likely related to severe malnutrition". They even did a needle biopsy of liver, no cancer but badly inflamed. Remaining tests require sedation and they don't want to chance that yet. There are a couple of encouraging reports - the pneumonia is better and her kidneys are functioning better than hey were midweek.
The only major handicap in life is a bad attitude!