Stages of death timeline

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Avatar f tn Hello.... what is the time line for the last stages of ovarian cancer.. My mother is 77 has had it for 18 months now... the cancer is in the lymph nodes, she is 36 kgs her stomach is huge and she is taking a high dose of drugs for the pain,,, but my brother and i are so confused .. the docs tell us nothing, i am at the stage where i read her chats to get any info i can. i am a hands on person i like to know what there pumping into my mother.... god its hard and heart breaking to watch .
Avatar n tn Welcome -- sorry to hear you are not feeling well. Sounds like your docs are not experienced with Lyme and possible coinfections, or they might not be taking the position that everything is 'normal' except for an enlarged spleen. I'm not medically trained, but to my limited understanding an enlarged spleen can indicate that your body is working hard to filter out the garbage left over from your immune system fighting hard against an infection...
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar m tn What does it look like in the initial stages? I have a small unopened spot like lump on the shaft of my penis. It is just bigger than the end of a pencil and literally just appeared yesterday. I am aware a chancre can appear up to 90 days after the encounter hence the fact I am worried. I have no swelling in any of my lymph nodes and have no other symptoms.
Avatar m tn Can you tell me the sensitivity and accuracy of the Eia syphilis enzyme immunoassay that measures the Igm and IgG antibodies specific for Treponema pallidium in latent and late stage syphilis? The timeline of possible infection would be 15 yrs. I've read that the sensitivity of this test goes down after this amount of time and in those stages. Is that true?
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar f tn Sometimes an enlargement causes heart failure. In the advanced stages , failure has symptoms of varying degrees. Some people are incapacitated and find it hard to move around, but others can get by ok.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar f tn the unknowns here are that survival rates or statistics are just that----derived from studies of large groups of people to come up with averages. and of course, "lucky" implies chance and uncertainty. as far as the stages of alcoholism, they apply to behavior. stages of specific physiological conditions such as cancer are based upon things like organ function which can better indicate survivability and mortality.
Avatar n tn 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.
Avatar f tn 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.
Avatar f tn 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?
Avatar f tn He also had multiple pictures of woman on one of the three of his phones some naked supposedly sent to him by his notorious brother whom I never met or heard him talk to on the phone, the ones who were clothed conveniently became his family members. So I also wondered if he is with me then who is with her. He was also probably involved in some sort of illigle drug activity I know he smoked weed, but I also think his involvement may have been a bit deeper than that but I don't know how deep.
Avatar m tn Does herpes disrupt your immunology in any way and if yes at during which stages and at what levels of severity? 6 days after exposure I had very low lymphocytes, then this had normalised when i had another blood work a couple of days afterwards. 6 weeks post exposure my white blood cells are 3.2 with a normal range being 4 to 10. I'm borderline neutropenic with my neutrophils count being 1.5 with a normal range being 2 to 5. Tests after 4 days show the same deficiencies.
Avatar f tn t seem to fine anywhere how long after a lethal amount or a small overdose (such as 1 accidental extra dose) on top of toxicity symptoms would start to show or when death would take place. So my question is when would symptoms begin to show and when would death occur. I don't need exact times but if toxicity showed hours after an over dose and death came days after it would give me a timeline which is all I'm looking for. Thank you.
192055 tn?1263555537 t went through the 5 stages of death. No matter what everyone who loses someone has to go through these stages..So my advice to you is to get out some pictures and just cry. You need to cry..it really helps. but i am no expert..
Avatar f tn ve been googling the topic to death and keep finding mixed opinions on whether this could be connected. A lot of articles say syphilis sores primarily appear on the genitals and that is where I would expect them to appear. However, others say that they can turn up anywhere. I'm just a bit worried because the timeline is almost exactly when you would first expect something to appear after exposure. I've just been tested but have to wait a few days now.
Avatar n tn I thought there were only 4 stages of liver disease, not 6. Anyone know what the pathology report cirrhosis stage 6/6 might mean? Thank you.