Death - Alcoholic Liver Disease
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My ex-husband has just died from Alcoholic Liver Disease. He became very bloated round the abdomen and his urine output and bowel movements erratic. He was hardly able to move around in the last week. I noticed when he came to meet my daughter and I that his eyes were very yellow. It was obvious to me that something terrible was happening. Alcohol had no effect on him in the last two weeks. He did not want to bother his doctor but after my insistence he saw a locum last Thursday who gave him tablets for nausea and something for constipation. He died on Monday after a two terrible nights of pain thinking it was the laxatives working! By the time I got an ambulance his chest was crackling and he could hardly breathe. He died in ICU 12 hours later.
I am so angry with the locum who gave him laxatives. She had his whole case history before her - his eyes were yellow, his abdomen was full of fluids - something terrible was happening inside. AND SHE GAVE HIM LAXATIVES. I need to do something. Could he have had a chance if seen by his normal GP!! I just don't know. Three days might have at least given him a chance.
Anyone any ideas? He struggled all his life and just couldn't beat alcoholism. But this was quick at the end.
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GrandmaB Guest
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jennifer55368 GrandmaB
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WOW! I am so sorry to hear it's been that fast. Any symptoms before that? Symptoms a few years before? That is so fast!
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richard31171 Guest
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Very sorry to hear about your loss. T o prevent this from reocurring ESLD patients like me need to regulate digestive flow carefully as an impactacted colon will lead to quick death. This balance becomes harder all the time due to accute. dehydration vs dehydration vs. toxic overload brain destruction death