Please help my mom has dangerous symptoms and ER didn’t diagnose - chest pain, loss of balance, etc.

My mom is a 54 year old woman who is generally healthy. She had a colonoscopy before, possibly breast cancer but they said it was benign years ago and just this year she had abormally his TSH level and thickening of the endometrial lining of her uterus which they did biopsy or something and then basically didn’t follow up with anything else.

Please, I don’t care who you are, please read this about my Moms symptoms and give me help. I don’t know what to do. I need to demand hospital admission but I have to wait until appointment at 8am Monday with her PCP because hospital released her last night (I forced her to go to the ER because I’m terrified of losing her.) 

I need help getting my Mom diagnosed and admitted to a hospital until they are 100% positive about her diagnosis. 

My Mom has had chest pain for over 6 months, probably a year. She coughed up Blood 2 weeks ago and is not a smoker. In November, when I knew something was wrong; I told her to go the ER - I made her go quite honestly. They did an EKG, and said everything was fine and her heart looked good. I know she has a lung problem, thyroid problem and possibly a brain problem. I am positive because of handwriting analysis. I backed off for a while after her EKG was good because I was worrying her and my parents were both getting upset. She had mild and completely random - maybe once a week or once every two weeks - problems with her memory. She had random leg pain only in one leg and she didn’t know how to describe it. She had a minor and very little cough I think she has been hiding from me.

In December, around Christmas, she was watching my baby and she said she reached for something behind the radio and pulled a muscle. I kept telling her to go make sure that was all it was and she just kept ignoring it. She had the pain to where at times I could tell it was bothering her and at times it hurt her to sit and feed my baby when she visited which really bugged me. This pain she had was in her upper left quadrant (near her ribs and she described it as basically from the front of the lower rib area to the back of the lower rib area). She never had it looked at! It hurt her for ATLEAST a month probably more like 2 months. 

I have noticed her “tripping” or losing balance for the past 3-6 months but it is becoming more and more often. I said something to her almost every time I seen it happen and she brushes it off as if nothing happened. Well, it has got more and more frequent to the point I’m worried she will fall and really hurt herself or while holding my baby, fall and hurt my baby along with herself!!  

Also, she told me just recently she has been having a lot more symptoms than I realized.

I made her go to the ER last night with the following symptoms:

-Coughed up blood clot 2 weeks ago

-Fatigue

-Anxiety and Stress (she attributes to being from her job and some of it probably is)

-Feels like it’s hard to swallow

-she is always clearing her throat

-recently I see her grabbing her neck more and more (universal sign for choking)

-lack of balance

-dry cough

-feels like she is congested

-coughed up almost a 1 inch blood clot less than 2 weeks ago

-Charlie horse pains often in her right foot and lower leg (sign of DVT)

-she described to me she “felt like there was a blood clot in her neck” 

-she physically looks drained

-she seems to know something is wrong

-she is forgetting things she never should forget (she bought my baby an elephant and it’s head and ears flap - she was SO happy to show my baby this toy and less than ONE or TWO months later, she asked me who got it for my daughter!! I almost cried because I know something is wrong.

Her grandma had mini strokes often and her grandma and grandpa were both on blood thinners.

Last night they gave her a contrast ct of her chest, blood work and d-dimer and told her she did not have a PE or lun cancer. They didn’t even check her right leg for a DVT! 

She is also lightheaded and said she gets dizzy when she goes to lay straight back or when she touches or lays on a specific area on the back top of her head. 

They didn’t even do an MRI!!!!

They released her with a diagnosis of coughing up blood - they didn’t even do enough testing to find out wtf is going on!!!!!

Please help. Before her contrast ct last night they gave her Ativan via her IV... she went to work after the hospital without sleeping even though she assured me she would sleep.

Today, on the way home from work, she actually went off the road and could have Really got hurt. That was almost a full 10-12 HOURS after the Ativan. I realize lack of sleep could cause it but I know something is SERIOUSLY wrong.

She has an apt. Monday at 8am. I am going to type a letter with all of her symptoms and demand they admit me her and find out what is causing all of these symptoms. I’m frustrated and disgusted with the care she is receiving. I also took her to the PCP on Monday last week who listened and said that it couldn’t be a PE because coughing blood isn’t a sign of a PE (MORON) and he ordered a CBC diff and lipid panel or whatever and a CT without contrast which he said needed a pre with from insurance.

WHAT DO I DO?!?!!!

I refuse to lose my Mom because of incompetent and uncaring people. Please help me, offer advice, let me know if you recognize anything these symptoms could be, etc., 

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