for someone with pancreatic cancer that can't even drink water without vomiting what is there to do? This has been ongoing for a week and a few days.
Basically she had numerous investigations (blood tests, endoscopy, ct, mri, biliary duct stent intervention twice, but with a plastic tube, she had it twice because the first time it got clogged) and all the investigations will have been for nothing.
The oncologist said she needs to be in good condition and stable to be able to discuss any treatment and ordered some more investigations to be done.
All this process has taken about 3 months at this point. She's been in and out of the hospital ER for 5 times now. The last 2 times they just discharged her immediately after giving her some IV medications/fluids even though at home she still can't eat or drink anything.
My point is, do you still try to call the ER or let the patient starve to death literally?
It doesn't seem like there's anything they can do that lasts more than a day or 2 and they just told her to take the meds she got prescribed.
She has antinausea meds like osetron, Domperidone, and creon anzymes which she takes but are not effective.
Also osetron/zofran, Domperidone are supposed to be taken short term from everything I've read, however the doctors just said to take it "as needed". For her that means taking it everyday multiple times per day. Yesterday she took Domperidone twice and she still vomited. Due to that, now she doesn't want to take any meds or food anymore because she says it's not effective, which is true.