Today I was contacted by my 72yr old, father-in-laws doc. Stating that I needed to pick him up and take him to a va hospital,which is 2 1/2hrs. from my home b/c he is very anemic and had blood in his stool and they don't know how long it has been going on. So I called my husband and picked him up and headed our way to take his dad to the hospital. At the ER, they got him prepped with needles in his arm ready for a I.V. and blood trans and done some scans. But has not administered nither and it's been 10hrs. since we picked him up at the doc. and got him to the hos. The doctor at the office (not the hospital) said it was probably life threaten, but it seems no one as doing anything about it. Nor saying what it could be.Â
  This all started about 2 months ago, they changed meds and gave new ones, he began to get weaker as each week passed by. He use to could walk a mile or two and do something outside, but all he does now is rest. Recently his ankles have began to swell and he has almost passed out a couple of times tilling the garden. He can barley walk 200ft without stopping to set down a min., and thats a rough est. between our houses. The meds he is on right now are:
benazepril,omeprazole,geipizide,metformin,simvastatin, and another that starts with hyp...., and I don't know the name of it. His doctor said it might be bleeding ulcers, if not that; something much worse. I don't know? Does any one have advice or a opinion they would like to share.
~Concerned Daughter-in-law~
