Aunt Ruth was admitted to the hospital with dehydration and a UTI (urinary tract infection). Basically 99% of all old people who are admitted to the hospital will have that diagnosis unless there is something else definite, like a fall or pneumonia. She’d had a bad heart for years and years, and this time, at age 92, she did not respond to antibiotics and IV fluids.
Uncle Eppie has lung cancer which has metastasized to his brain. He is basically non-responsive. He has been on hospice, and was at home until 2/14, when he went to the hospital for a respite stay while Uncle Ray and Adel were on a short vacation. He was to come home on Thursday, but as he was being prepared to come home, he began to have some trouble breathing, so we postponed his discharge until we could see how he was doing. The family decided that they would do better with him at the hospital for his final days.
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