Had a couple of scary days. My husband saw his bowel cancer doctor on Wednesday and he was charming and very reassuring. The consultation, which included seeing the scans for the first time which did show that the cancer had spread to the liver, plus the blood tests took about an hour. The outcome of the consultation was that he would need to build up my husband's body for the next couple of weeks as he is too weak to take chemo. That all seemed self explanatory and we were allowed to go home, although his doctor did say that he ought to come into hospital asap. We drove home and had been indoors no more than 2 hours when we were called back to hospital as my husband's kidney function had dropped significantly (from 96 down to 9 in two weeks). My husband had been suffering with diarrhoea since he had his endoscopy two weeks ago and this had caused the dramatic drop in the kidney function. I suppose my question is, is it usual for people to have such a violent reaction to the endoscopy as my husband was well before it?
I was really scared I was losing him on Wednesday as I could see he was struggling and when doctors start talking about resuscitation it all gets very real. Thankfully, my husband had stabilised yesterday, but it is very much a day to day process. Thanks for listening.
