Cirrhosis Hospice
My mom (68)was in the hospital originally for a fall. She had a laceration to her forehead and lost a lot of blood. Doctors ran labs She was then Then diagnosed with stage 4 end stage liver disease (cirrhosis). Her labs were all over. As she was in there she went through withdraws which caused her to be intubated/ Sudated for 9 days. She was then extabated and looked as if she was getting better still confused then removed from icu into lower care floor. The next day she had bleeding from her rectum a lot of blood. They took her into do a colonoscopy and put clips on the bleed. After that procedure she looked so much better her skin color was beautiful and she was talking a bit more I thought my mama was going to come home healthy on her next steps to recovery and we could the talk about a transplant and wishes for her future. A couple days later the bleeding came back. They did another colonoscopy but this time she had barley survived. Her breathing was going down during the procedure. The bleeding was from the same stop so the Dr put 2 more clips. Doctor said that she would not survive another procedure and the bleeding would continue. My mama was so confused was refusing her medicine. Fighting the nurses and I could tell she was in pain from all of the IV’s and needles from her blood being drawn. I didn’t want her to be suffering. She couldn’t even remember me anymore. So I talked with my brother and we thought it would be best to bring her home on hospice care where I took care of her for 5 days where she unfortunately took her last breath. This was one of the worst decisions I had to make in my life I have so many emotions and I can’t believe this is my reality. My mama is gone. 💔