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[Blindhands at aol.com]

Many thanks for all your thoughts.  A Special thanks for those   who have 
stepped up and making Krafters Korner run along smoothly.
 
I hit home om Mondayas my kids gathered around me and I was with them and  
got thru the planning of the funeral.  That will take place on Thursday and  
Friday this week.
 
I am so numb over this all and my heart aches.  Basically, he had a  blood 
clot in his lung [which causethe last week shortness of breath, weakness]  
On Friday while in the VA Hospital breathing got worst, his hart rate went 
into  afebrillation a piece of the clot broke off and stopped his heart.  They 
 asked me to allow them to administer  a clot bust ing medication and they  
told me they might even have to do surgery to remove the clot.  They had  
givine him Heprin which was a blood thinner to stop the clot from getting  
larger.    Phone calls started Friday morning 9 a.m. with the  last one 
telling me he died around 2 p.m.  I never got up there until the  early evening.  
A friend drove him up to the BA hosp on Thursday  morning.  I didn't even 
know he had gone as I was on and off the phone  calling the hospital about how 
to get him up there.
 
Sorry for this if it is more then you wanted to know.  
 
I truly feel the VA hospital didn't do enough and too little to late   and 
never gave me phone calls, answers or follow ups.
 
I found out while standing in the room with my husbands body from a doctor  
when I asked about the original statement from the doctors 3 weeks earlier 
That  according to a CT Scan he had colon cancer with a tumor that 
perferated the  colon wall.  The doctors told me Friday night he did not have colon  
cancer.  Biopsy done  proved that.  Oddly enough they did 4 CT  scans while 
he was in the hospital 3 weeks earlier  and one scan they told  me showed 
all that and then the others they could not visualize   it.  He went for the 
colonoscopy and wanted to do another one with a better  cleaning out.  That 
was scheduled for April 4.  They had him off his  Coommadin  medication since 
they discharged him.  Maybe if they kep  him in the hospital and did the 
colonoscopy  as that was what they told me  they  wanted to do while he was 
there for the week and a half.  They  released him still in pain, breathing 
was irregular, not eating and  diarrhea.  They failed him. 
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com