 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | My mother in law refuses to drink and she is over 200 lbs with 8-20 oz/day. She is hospitalized just after nadir every 3 weeks like clockwork. "You don't understand me...I am like a camel and drink when I'm thirsty every 2-3 days."
I remember the Wall Street Journal full page article in 1983,"You can lead a horse to water...but you can't manage it to drink."
It makes no sense to water drinkers just like they don't understand how we can drink all the time.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
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Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
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Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
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Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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