Hi Everyone,

Well, you all know mum went on vacation to Cyprus. She got back today, and apparently hadn't been eating. She was looking very grey, and her stomach was swollen and hard. She was also in a lot of pain.
She was taken to the ER by ambulance, and right now she is on the assesment ward at the local hospital - they're giving her fluids and they think there is a problem with her kidneys.
I'm expecting to hear more later, and will update you then.

Sue

Update from Ray:

The news is not very good.

Brenda has been kept in hospital, at least for tonight and tomorrow undergoing some scans. Apparently from blood tests her kidneys aren't working properly so she is on a drip to put some fluids into her and checking the output.
The medical doctor I saw, having checked her history, doesn't think its an infection but cancer related, but is still treating for infection. The fact that she is mumbling and halucinating also makes him think thats its not an infection.
So hopefully we will find out tomorrow whats going on.

This all surfaced initally on Sunday and when i checked what drugs she had on Saturday I assumed it was too much morphine on so little food which started it. After staying in bed on Sunday and sleeping most of it away she seemed a lot better on Monday but still wasn't eating. Tuesday was similar and today she ate nothing and drank little and was mumbling and incoherent. Somehow she managed the journey back home, with the help of a wheelchair and from Adrians son. Still I assumed it was the morphine but when Lesley saw her she convinced her to go to hospital.