anyone help me ...........

naveen
naveen Member Posts: 1
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
hi everybody. my mom had died on 12/0/2k9 due to colon cancer(descending).doctors had recognized it on 10days before the date she was died.she had shifted to MIC. i am not able to know the reason what had happen when is undergone Colonoscopy test. it was happen on 12/1/2k9 at 12:30pm.
she was anesthetize before the test itself. test was happen around 20mins. she was again shifted back to MIC unit. after 1 hr she was not able to breath properly(shortness of breath) & her BP levels was decreasing and she almost not in a situation to control herself. doc are screening her very deeply. but after an hour she had completely loosed control and not able to see. the total night was the same position.By early morning she had left the world.
please any one help me ("what was happend during colonscopy test. whether the technician had mistaken)or what might happened to her........
please help me.......

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  • Unknown
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  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
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    Naveen
    I'm so sorry to hear of your mother's death. It sounds like she was Stage IV and very advanced or had other underlying medical conditions. Patients are not sent to intensive care without good reason.

    How old was your mother?
    Was she overweight?
    Did she have high blood pressure or other medical conditions?
    Did the doctor's do a CT scan? Was the cancer elsewhere in her body?
    Did anyone mention bowel obstruction or the tumor perforating the bowel wall?

    It seems like you're searching for answers you might never get. Have you asked the doctors what happened during the final hours?

    As far as the 'tech', from my understanding, colonoscopies are done by Gastroenterologists and not 'techs'. Many or most of us can testify that the doctor will stop with the procedure if he cannot easily get passed the tumor. There is always the risk of a perforation.

    Was your mother in a hospital in the United States?

    Again, I am very sorry for your loss. Ten days is not enough time. I know you must be so heartbroken.

    Be sure to get your own colonoscopy at a very young age and regularly thereafter.
    Diane
  • lcarper2
    lcarper2 Member Posts: 635 Member
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    dianetavegia said:

    Naveen
    I'm so sorry to hear of your mother's death. It sounds like she was Stage IV and very advanced or had other underlying medical conditions. Patients are not sent to intensive care without good reason.

    How old was your mother?
    Was she overweight?
    Did she have high blood pressure or other medical conditions?
    Did the doctor's do a CT scan? Was the cancer elsewhere in her body?
    Did anyone mention bowel obstruction or the tumor perforating the bowel wall?

    It seems like you're searching for answers you might never get. Have you asked the doctors what happened during the final hours?

    As far as the 'tech', from my understanding, colonoscopies are done by Gastroenterologists and not 'techs'. Many or most of us can testify that the doctor will stop with the procedure if he cannot easily get passed the tumor. There is always the risk of a perforation.

    Was your mother in a hospital in the United States?

    Again, I am very sorry for your loss. Ten days is not enough time. I know you must be so heartbroken.

    Be sure to get your own colonoscopy at a very young age and regularly thereafter.
    Diane

    Naveen
    I would 1st talk to a lawyer get all the medical records for you mother have some one that knows what they are doing look at them to see if something could have gone wrong during anything they did to your mother. Don't try to guess what happened just get answers Doctors are not perfect and they do make mistakes.I lost my mother to a mistake made by a doctor and know the pain you are feeling now. Please get legal advise to go from here. I am not saying for you to sue so please don't anyone get this wrong. I am saying to cut through the legal bull of the doctors and hospitals you need a lawyer to know the correct language to use when talking to them...good luck please let us know...I am so sorry for your loss I will pray for you.

    Louann
  • snommintj
    snommintj Member Posts: 601
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    lcarper2 said:

    Naveen
    I would 1st talk to a lawyer get all the medical records for you mother have some one that knows what they are doing look at them to see if something could have gone wrong during anything they did to your mother. Don't try to guess what happened just get answers Doctors are not perfect and they do make mistakes.I lost my mother to a mistake made by a doctor and know the pain you are feeling now. Please get legal advise to go from here. I am not saying for you to sue so please don't anyone get this wrong. I am saying to cut through the legal bull of the doctors and hospitals you need a lawyer to know the correct language to use when talking to them...good luck please let us know...I am so sorry for your loss I will pray for you.

    Louann

    infection, possible septic shock
    I went into septic shock 6 times in 30 days while battling an infection. One out of every two people that go into septic shock die. My symptoms went like this. 1st uncontrollable shivering (this is caused by toxins interfering with synaptic function), I had to be heated up with blankets and pumped full of heated saline. During one episode I was given 5 liters of heated saline in 2 hours. When the concentrations of toxins go down the shivering stops. 2nd Rapid loss of blood pressure ( my blood pressure was 60/30 for over 24 hours (every doctor there agrees my kidneys should have quit working after an hour or two but they didn't)). 3rd severe shortness of breath. I had to make a conscious effort to breathe and struggled for every short breath. 4th Very high heart rate, over 200 BPM for 24 hours.

    Septic shock is freaking miserable. I was in excellent shape going into my infection ordeal. Had I not been, there is no way I could have struggled to live.

    If your mother had advanced stage colon cancer with a tumor breaching her colon wall, the smallest act could have caused that tissue to tear or rupture. That would have released bacteria into her abdominal cavity causing an infection. It doesn't take long for infection to spread. There is very little that can be done after that. Either you can struggle to live until the antibodies begin to work or you cant. I know I contemplated quitting many times. I actually did once or twice but I used those few seconds of not breathing to regain a little strength.

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