Question: My mother is 79 years old, she has an illeostomy due to bladder cancer 4 1/2 years ago. After the surgery she had abscensses and was doctored for approximately 7 weeks getting rid of them. Then no trouble until the beginning of the year and because we live in a small town they said she had a urinary tract infection, the urologist put a scope down her ostomy looking for a blockage, none found that wa at the end of April, I then took her to Mayo Clinic May 15, there was an abscess but very small so we came back home, went back the next week, had a drain put in, back the next week, had drain removed, back 2 weeks late had drain put back in and she still has the drain. She is on IV Dapromyacin, Caprofungin and a third antibiotic of which I'm not sure of the name, she was going to the local hospital for infusions daily, a week ago last Friday, the nurses noticed that her color was bad, then Saturday her heart rate was tachy, Saturday night she fell, Sunday around 8 pm she fell again, my daughter and I got there and she could not walk on her own. It took 2 of us to take her to the car, we took her to the local ER, she was then put in he hospital for dehydration and sepsis. Her hand to mouth coordination is off which it wasn't prior to Sunday, she can't walk on her on, she is extremely week, she had diarrhea but has been better, doctor stopped her fluids on Friday, then when i requested to check her labs yesterday, it was found that she had a BUN of 17 which on Friday had been 7, here creatinine was 0.6, her WBC was 3.9 and has been several days, her HGB is 10.9. The doctor never came to see her today AT ALL. I am requesting her to be transferred back up to Mayo tomorrow. She was a healthty 79 year old who cleaned her own house, laundry, meals, walked up until Saturday of last week. There was a CT and MRI done of her head and shows nothing. Please help me. Tell me what I need to ask the doctors to do. I only have 1 mother, and I'm not ready to give up, nor is she. PLEASE HELP ME.
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