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[sunshine]

Hi, Joyce!

I am expressing my sincere condolences to you # respect to the death of your husband. I know how disheartening it must be that you didn't receive very accurate information. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Hugs



----- Original Message -----
From:  Blindhands at aol.com
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:11 am
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] (no subject)

>
>
> 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 
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