Chris wrote:
Having said yesterday that Mum was at long last getting better, she has taken another turn for the worse. They finally concluded that the continuing diarrhea was a result of the colitis, not the antibiotics, so they have put her on a new drug, cyclosporin, to treat the colitis.
This is a powerful drug used when people have transplants to help prevent rejection, & unfortunately it has rather a lot of side effects. Chief among these is nausea & Mum is having real trouble eating. Her appetite did seem to improve towards the end of last week, but this has knocked her right back again, & the hospital food isn't helping. They have been giving her anti nausea drugs, but these seem to be administered haphazardly, for example they gave her one this evening after she had been sick, rather than timing it so she had one before the evening meal was served in the hope that she would be able to eat some! The doctors have suggested that family bring food in as she is now so repulsed by hospital food, but when Toni took her a sandwich, at her request, she couldn't face even that.
She is also tired, headachy & feeling bloated, so more prayer is needed I'm afraid, most especially for Irene, but if you can spare some for us & Pete & Alison, Toni's brother & wife, that wouldn't go amiss either!
Thanks all, Love Chris
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