March 17, 2013
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not really sure ....
Currently my mum is back in hospital, she's been there for the last week. Her immune system is very low- it's very unfortunate.
The last couple of days, my mum has been running a fever. When the nurses do their routine obs, and if my mum runs a fever then they start their process of collecting blood.
It's a tough gig doing this because sometimes the veins aren't showing and each time- it's a lot harder and my mum is always forever in a world of pain. It's gut wrenching for us and for her to go through this "we need to take your blood" routine and watch them unsuccessfully do so.
What I found frustrating is that the doctors cannot give us any reason as to why my mum's fevering, they collect all of these blood cultures and they can't tell us whats wrong. Which to me, frankly is just not good enough especially when the answers are more than vague. Actually vague is the understatement of the year.
I get that they have to determine that "nothing" new has developed but they haven't yet figured out what was the original cause is to begin with. For a bunch of people who work in a scientific medical field, there is a LOT of "what ifs", nothing concrete, not even high percentages, just shrugs of shoulders. It builds lots of confidence in us, especially when we have to watch someone we love dearly go through so much pain just to watch someone who's supposed to be a high respected haematologist(blood doctor) tell us- "we're not sure, we're guessing that it's just the cancer". Guessing? witchdoctors guess, uneducated people guess, but doctors? What the heck?
Surely there must be a better way, or process to this. It almost seems like the doctors and the hospital staff in general are working in the dark, like they're not sure what's going on, and just hope for the best. You think that in 2013- we'd progress in the world of medicine.. but clearly we haven't.
It's starting to become evident that there's very much more for us to learn about cancer, i just hope my mum doesn't become a statistic where due to the doctors/nurses/hospitals incompetence/incapabilities that she loses with the battle of cancer.. because you know...
nobody seems to know around here.
