So to start, I am a caregiver for my mother. She's 53, but in poor health. A lot of her issues started in 2010 when she had surgery to remove a craniopharyngioma. When she had the surgery, they had to remove 3/4 of her pituitary which caused her to have diabetes insipidus. Unfortunately, they misdiagnosed which type of DI she had, and she ended up in the ER in critical condition. She had multiple organ failure and from the vasopressors to raise her blood pressure, she lost half of each foot. She ended up recovering (which in itself was a miracle, when they transferred her the doctor gave her a 50/50 chance of making it to the other hospital alive). Later that year, she ended up with pulmonary embolisms leading her to taking warfarin for the rest of her life because she's confined to a wheelchair because of the amputations.
In the past year, she had pancreatitis back in march/april, and then her health was ok for awhile. Since November, things have changed. She's been hospitalized 3 or 4 times, and they can't tell me what's wrong with her. In November, she had an infection and ever since she has had little to no appetite. She has been anemic since her bout of pancreatiis, but they found a bleeding ulcer in her stomach that they repaired this last hospitalization (Dec. 23 - Jan 2nd). This last hospitalization she had sepsis from an infection in her leg.
Presently, what concerns me so much is that since her last hospitalization, she's changed. She's sleeping almost the entire day and night (Normally she sleeps a few hours at a time, but is awake and aware the rest of the time), only eating about a cup of jello with fruit each day (she hasn't been eating much since November, but this is even less than she was eating), and not really doing the things she normally does. She normally spends a lot of her free time on her computer, but hasn't touched it the past two days. She tells me that she's ok, but my uncle who lives with us as well also has noticed that she's not acting right.
As far as the eating goes, she's been to the doctor and hospital and we've asked about it each time but no one seems overly concerned about it. I almost feel like I'm watching someone who has given up on life and is preparing to die right now. They think the anemia was caused by the bleeding ulcer.
Anyone have any suggestions on what to do or what might be wrong? I plan on making a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning if her condition hasn't changed, but I also don't expect anything to really be done.