Re: Stuff I learned first hand from my mom's death that's relevent here
- From: Helen Back <SiriusC-63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:37:50 -0700 (PDT)
Bless you, Susan! I havent been around for quite a while and I come
back to see your post. I am so sorry that you have lost your mum. I
cried my bloody eyes out, but it must be nothing compared to how you
feel.
When things are out of our control and we know more than the so called
professionals, it is the most frustrating and ugly thing we can
experience.
Stay strong and take time out when you need to.
HB
On 24 Jun, 17:37, Susan <neverm...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I'm back home after 10 days away, following my mother's death on June
12. My mom didn't die of old age or infirmity, she died of medical
treatment. The downward spiral of this 86 year old web surfing,
stairway bolting, science fiction reading, fiercely independent and fit
woman began with prescribed statin she never needed (more about that in
this post), the year and a half of Prednisone she was rx'ed to recover
from the statins, and the colon cancer that grew from a perfectly clean
colon one year to stage 3 cancer the next, a likely result of all the
above. But it gets worse; despite promises from the oncologist that
she'd use very low dose chemo because my mom, my sister and I get
extremely strong reactions to even microdoses of meds (positive and
negative) my mother's complaints of the most obvious chemo toxicity
symptoms on the dose she was given were ignored until her chemo toxicity
was extreme. She ended up dying of MRSA vegetations in her heart that
she'd never have been exposed to if she hadn't needed hospitalization
for extreme chemo toxicity. She also had a months long bout of c.
difficile due to this.
I told my mom for years that her "elevated LDL" was no cause for concern
when she was taking statins at ages 78-82 or so. Her TGLs were low, her
HDL high and she had no health problems other than some hearing loss and
she took a small dose of Synthyroid, that was it. Statins changed
everything. A few years ago, even after all the steroids, she had
artery catheterization, she had no plaque, virtually none! The same was
true the day before she died. A vascular surgeon was urging us to do
open heart surgery on her after a blood clot removal from her leg
revealed arteries clean as a whistle. Her organs and arteries were
"like those of a healthy 45 year old." He thought this meant she had a
lot of good years ahead.
She would have, had she stayed out of the damned doctor's offices.
LDL doesn't cause heart disease, and it's the building block for all of
our essential and life sustaining adrenal hormones, ones that decline
with age, so older folks NEED more of it. Her muscle aches and fatigue
on the statins, then her kidney bleeding on Crestor were blown off by
docs, she just got more and more invasive procedures yielding nothing
helpful. Elderly people with lower LDL have the highest rate of
mortality, and I believe this is why.
My mom was an undiagnosed diabetic, too, til I brought her a meter, but
docs kept telling her she wasn't, while they putting insulin in her IV
and injected her after meals because of the sugar in the IV too! She
was not IR, she was a slim, active, healthy 86 y.o. DM with highish LDL
and virtually no arterial plaque.
Those lipid targets they're pushing are to promote sales, not health.
I just can't stop shaking my head. Everyone has to die, I can accept
death, but how do you wrap your mind around the incompetence and
ignorance that's the rule, not an exception? How does the ordinary
person protect her/himself from it? My mother suffered horribly without
complaint the last few miserable months of her life, for no reason other
than the medical treatment she received.
Be careful out there. Caveat emptor.
Susan
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