Stages of death time
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My 11 year old maltese was diagnosed with chronic renal failure in November '14. She is on Pepcid and blood pressure meds. A few days ago she was also diagnosed with Demodex and is on oral medicine to cure it. I am going into the vet's office on Friday for new blood work / check up. I am have read about other dogs' symptoms and I am wondering if there is any sort of progression with the symptoms.
I'm living it right now and to be honest, I am aware of 5 to 7 steps or stages of the grief process, but they don't matter, because you survive one day at a time ....baby steps, and not time frame, since everyone heals at their own pace. It's been 2 years for me and I do feel better, but I am not yet completely healed...it takes a long time.
Hello, I am wanting to know the stages of recovery after retina detachment surgery.
On 9/12/11 I had cryotherapy with pneumatic retinopexy due to PVD that caused a detachment.
On 9/19 I returned to work (vision in the good eye only due to the bubble in the other)
On 9/28 I was in the hospital due to another detachment (same eye, different location) this time I had a scleral buckle, viterectomy, laser retinopoxy and pneumatic retinopexy.
I thought of it as a loss, much like the death of a loved one. I had to cycle through the grief of loosing all the things I used to do and how I used to feel. This took time, and I couldnt rush it...much like an actual death, the waves of emotion would come randomly.
They say there are 5 stages to grief: 1-Denial and Isolation, 2-Anger, 3-Bargaining, 4- Depression, 5- Acceptance.
Stage 1 is considered a small amount of fibrosis. Stages 2 and 3 is considered a greater amount of fibrosis or scarring meaning the disease has progressed. The more fibrosis the harder it is on the liver to carry out it's functions. As the damage progresses further, many scars can form together, which can lead to stage 4, or cirrhosis.
I think there are different stages of addiction..the early stages which are most easily broken and then the last stages where one has to do or die.
Actually as i type I realize that one always has to do or die because if one does not stop in the early stages it can progress to a much more difficult time and a more difficult recovery.
My father is in the final stages of dementia. He can no longer hold anything or walk. He quit speaking about 4 years ago. I just was recently told that he no longer chews. This has been for about 6 weeks. His food is thickened so he can swallow it. He has lost about 20 pounds in 5 months. His albumin level is 2.7, and 2.5 is sometimes the criteria for hospice care. My question is, how much longer before he loses his ability to swallow?
I am so very sorry about your little dog's passing.
I obviously can't tell you what the cause of his death was. Only a necropsy (autopsy) could determine that.
I am making an educated guess however, as when you said he had belly contractions, this reminded me of my own dear dog who passed from hemangiosarcoma. She had a massive internal bleed in her last few hours, and kept contracting her belly muscles. I know this was an instinct to try to get something out of her insides.
Thanks for your sound advice; er...lecture. Seriously, I do appreciate it and if I sounded that I was complaining or placing blame, that certainly was not my intent. I think I'm just frightened. I've never had such horrible physical feelings in my life and I'm a divorced, single parent with the weight of the world upon me. I fear I won't be able to adequately support him if I feel so heavy headed that I cannot complete my commute to work. It's just devastating.
Even if you are found to have cancer there are different types of cancer and stages or grades of cancer. A lot of your outcome will depend on the size of the tumor, whether the tumor cells are well differentiated meaning they are slow growing and almost complete in structure or poorly differentiated meaning they are not well organized and grow faster, whether you have positive lymph nodes, perineural invasion, etc. See a surgeon, have a biopsy, and wait for the pathology.
Usually the woman in late stages of labor becomes acutely dyspneic with hypotension , experience seizures followed by cardiac arrest, massive DIC associated hemorrhage follows this and ends in death of the parturient. Death is mostly within an hour of onset. You can check related data in the books or the internet. Take care.
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