If DU doesn't believe in our justice system

[MohRokTah]

61. I'm a bit of a hothead and have been letting off some steam lately.

Bad juju in my life right now. DU is a place for me to argue and forget it.

My mother in law is in ICU awaiting a liver transplant. She's on dialysis, a vent tube, and a feeding tube. Dialysis is in her neck and her main IV is now in her neck.

She's borderline stable for a transplant if one comes and it will be a double transplant of a liver and a kidney.

As of right now, she has about two weeks of life left. She's classed 1A and gets the first donor available nationwide.

So yeah, I admit I've got some issues and I suspect I'll start an apology thread right after what will happen actually happens because I've taken a lot of this shit out on fellow DUers, even though I shouldn't have.

Oh, and the real kick in the teeth here, this has nothing to do with alcohol consumption, nor anything to do with her lifestyle.

See, a lazy doctor who basically got tired of seeing her constantly for unrinary tract infections prescribed this drug called nitrofurantoin on an ongoing basis. Seems this lazy doctor failed to inform her (or had no clue) that one of the side effects in women of advanced age is liver damage and she should be getting regular (at least every six months) liver enzyme level tests. Sadly, she was on this drug for about eighteen months when about 6 weeks ago a routine test by another doctor showed her liver ezyme levels were too high.

Long story short, the second doctor failed to connect the nitrofurantoin as a potential cause and another two weeks went by. During that time, my Mother in law went on a trip and, to be certain she didn't have an occurrence of the recurring UTI, took this drug for a week prior.

She gets back, has another test, and they send her to the hospital immediately.

Downhill slide since then, and all of it could have been avoided had the first lazy doctor had her come in for some blood work a year ago, noticed some elevated liver enzyme levels, and gone a different route for treatment of the UTI.

It goes without saying my wife is beside herself over this.

So yeah, I've been an asshole lately. I admit it.