I lost my dad on the 26th, I’m still in shock. He wasn’t healthy, but I wouldn’t pin he’d die this year. He was only 60.
he fell down the last step on the stairs at home and vomited and pooped black so they called an ambulance as he was on blood thinners. At hospital they didn’t suspect internal bleeding but kept him in as his kidneys weren’t great (he had chronic kidney disease but this had worsened). He also went through severe alcohol withdrawal. On top of this he had a chest infection (which he’d had since mid feb but refused to get help for) and they gave him antibiotics.
after 7 days they saw his hb levels go down, normally due to internal bleeding, so did an endoscopy, they found ulcers, inflammation and varices but no bleeding. They monitored him for three more days and discharged him on a Thursday.
by Tuesday he slept the whole day and didn’t pee - my poor mom thought he was just tired and hadn’t drank much so wasn’t peeing, and Wednesday he collapsed when the carers were helping him out of bed. By the time he got to hospital his heart was failing, he had low blood pressure, and low temperature. The doctors said it was sepsis. They couldn’t give him an IV of antibiotics due to his failing heart so I was called in to expect the worse. Same day put on palliative care and he passed away half hour after we were told to expect his decline.
his death certificate simply states:
pneumonia
contributing but not related to that:
acute kidney injury
alcohol related liver disease (he was never tested for this, on discharge they said 6-8 weeks he could have a scan)
they didn’t do a post moterm, my mom didn’t push for one. and she didn’t want to question the death certificate. How can he be in hospital for ten days, come home, only to die of sepsis, but then apparently the death certificate states he never had it?
I don’t want to go against my mom but I do want to question this. Does this sound a bit weird to you?