My grandmother was diagnosed last week with a somewhat mild form of leukemia.
Last week and this week, she has been in the hospital, receiving transfusions to get her platelet count up to normal levels, and they ran the usual barrage of tests.
They discharged her. Sent her home. Not wanting her to remain in the hospital while test results came back in.
The Doctor prescribed pills that run about $3100 per month. The insurance company did not want to provide her the pills, claiming that they needed to determine whether the pills were "reasonable and necessary." (Are they doctors?)
Anyway, after hours of wrangling, we finally got the pills.
Then the doctor calls this morning to say not to give them to her.
It turns out that they had diagnosed her with the wrong form of leukemia, and she has to go back in today. :| The doctor said her condition was not good, and he did not want to discuss it further over the phone.
THe sad thing is that she is really the glue that holds my family together. Without her, nothing will ever be the same.
No Thanksgiving dinners. No family Christmases. Nothing.
My family is badly, badly fractured as it is, and it will fall apart without her there to keep everyone talking together.
I'm just devastated. She is (was) such a vibrant woman. It is hard seeing her like this. It is hard confronting the possiblility that she will not just be around forever. Someone as dear as your mother... possibly more so.
I'm just devastated. She is going to need a staggering amount of blood, based on what I've read.
Please donate. I never realized how much people need it. I never realized that there was not enough.
UPDATE -
Well... after two weeks off and on in the hospital, it turns out that there is no definitive diagnosis How can you be in the hospital for 2 weeks withouta diagnosis?
She goies in next week for more transfusions, bone marrow testing, chest x-rays, and the like.
So sad
Last week and this week, she has been in the hospital, receiving transfusions to get her platelet count up to normal levels, and they ran the usual barrage of tests.
They discharged her. Sent her home. Not wanting her to remain in the hospital while test results came back in.
The Doctor prescribed pills that run about $3100 per month. The insurance company did not want to provide her the pills, claiming that they needed to determine whether the pills were "reasonable and necessary." (Are they doctors?)
Anyway, after hours of wrangling, we finally got the pills.
Then the doctor calls this morning to say not to give them to her.
It turns out that they had diagnosed her with the wrong form of leukemia, and she has to go back in today. :| The doctor said her condition was not good, and he did not want to discuss it further over the phone.THe sad thing is that she is really the glue that holds my family together. Without her, nothing will ever be the same.
No Thanksgiving dinners. No family Christmases. Nothing.
My family is badly, badly fractured as it is, and it will fall apart without her there to keep everyone talking together.
I'm just devastated. She is (was) such a vibrant woman. It is hard seeing her like this. It is hard confronting the possiblility that she will not just be around forever. Someone as dear as your mother... possibly more so.
I'm just devastated. She is going to need a staggering amount of blood, based on what I've read.
Please donate. I never realized how much people need it. I never realized that there was not enough.
UPDATE -
Well... after two weeks off and on in the hospital, it turns out that there is no definitive diagnosis
How can you be in the hospital for 2 weeks withouta diagnosis? She goies in next week for more transfusions, bone marrow testing, chest x-rays, and the like.
So sad
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