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i took my dad to er last week. that was quite an experience. he has pain in his pelvis area. he tried to get rid of it with his arthritis medications. however, after 3-4 days taking the medicine, the pain still linger around. couldn't handle the pain anymore, he asked me to take him to hospital. make a long story short, a team of doctors there found out that his sodium level was very low (hyponatremia) and they would like to find out why.
first possibility and the prime suspicion is that he took too many anti-inflammatory medicine for his pain combined with his high blood pressure pills and it made his kidney did not function properly and not able to absorb any sodium for the body. everything just flushed out with the urine. but, being in a state-operated hospital with a lot of intern house staff, i think they saw this as an opportunity to explore further posibility of what would cause the hyponatremia.
they did x-rays and ct scan and found a little nodule in his lung and a little nodule in his thyroid (both could also be the source of his hyponatremia).
furthermore, they wanted to do biopsy to make sure those nodules doesn't turn out to be cancer. but, my brother-in-law, a cytologist, told my mom to decline the biopsy but rather opted to do another ct scan after 3-6 more months because he concerned that the one who would do the biopsy would only do this for practice not as a qualified specialist doctor.
this freaked my dad out. he became worried and delusional in the hospital. all he wanted to do was just to go home. his condition actually worsen after gaining back his sodium level to normal and had steadily maintain it for a few days in there.
i finally told the doctors of what happened and asked permission to be discharge from the hospital. they let us go, with high concern and strong recommendation for him to follow up his condition.
all my family members are probably in denial and took all this so lightly. my self, i just think it is a coincidence for my dad which is 71 years old, to develop cancerous nodules in a small amount of time prior to his one and only check up. or this could be a miracle performed by God for my family to be able to catch developing cancer in a very early stage in what suppose to be a treatment for pain in the hip joint.
btw, the pain in the hip still there and no other complications but an inflammatory muscle pain.
so, we'll see whats gonna happen next.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
voltaire
first possibility and the prime suspicion is that he took too many anti-inflammatory medicine for his pain combined with his high blood pressure pills and it made his kidney did not function properly and not able to absorb any sodium for the body. everything just flushed out with the urine. but, being in a state-operated hospital with a lot of intern house staff, i think they saw this as an opportunity to explore further posibility of what would cause the hyponatremia.
they did x-rays and ct scan and found a little nodule in his lung and a little nodule in his thyroid (both could also be the source of his hyponatremia).
furthermore, they wanted to do biopsy to make sure those nodules doesn't turn out to be cancer. but, my brother-in-law, a cytologist, told my mom to decline the biopsy but rather opted to do another ct scan after 3-6 more months because he concerned that the one who would do the biopsy would only do this for practice not as a qualified specialist doctor.
this freaked my dad out. he became worried and delusional in the hospital. all he wanted to do was just to go home. his condition actually worsen after gaining back his sodium level to normal and had steadily maintain it for a few days in there.
i finally told the doctors of what happened and asked permission to be discharge from the hospital. they let us go, with high concern and strong recommendation for him to follow up his condition.
all my family members are probably in denial and took all this so lightly. my self, i just think it is a coincidence for my dad which is 71 years old, to develop cancerous nodules in a small amount of time prior to his one and only check up. or this could be a miracle performed by God for my family to be able to catch developing cancer in a very early stage in what suppose to be a treatment for pain in the hip joint.
btw, the pain in the hip still there and no other complications but an inflammatory muscle pain.
so, we'll see whats gonna happen next.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
voltaire
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