Nicky it sounds like your dad is a bit septic.... this means that a lot of your dad's body resources are going to work on the infection in his pancreas. He will be quite likely delirious and out of it whilst his temp it so high and they are monitoring his fluid balance to see how well his kidneys are working. If his kidneys stop working well it will tell them if he is having organ failure due to the sepsis. It sounds quite serious I grant you but I have seen plenty of people pull thru from much worse. If your dad isn't a drinker and is ussually quite fit his chances of pulling thru well are quite high. They will be giving him antibiotics in high levels to help him fight and they tend to bugger up the drips in his arms.
I feel like I am only saying sad things here so I will stop but you know where I am so if you need more info or interpretation of info you hear from the dr's just ask me.
Didnt have time to post properly last night. So sorry to hear that your dad is so ill! i have my fingers crossed that he pulls through ok...and quickly!
SIL has been on high pain meds all night and they are saying gall stones and pancreatitis. MIL passed away in july and she has bassically been on a huge drinking binge + drugs since then and living a very bad lifestyle so this is more than likly a result of that! I think they will have to operate, but i dont know what on or why.
Hugs to you and your dad!!
Thanks everyone.
My Dad likes a drink and usually goes to the pub Friday's and pops a couple of beers over the weekend, but that's the extent of it. I'm pretty sure the weekend was his last ever beer which won't worry him all that much.
Mum just called to tell me she's spoken to the docs at the hospital and Dad's temp got really high again ( around the 40-41 mark) but they got it down.
She said he's not being given any antibiotics. My Sister who is a nurse thought that normally someone in his condition would be ( we are by no means trying to tell the docs what/how to do their job, just wanting to know what's happening really). Mum's a little worried, so she is going to just nicely ask about antibiotics. We haven't been given any diagnosis yet, and the only thing Mum's been told about is the blood poisoning and the high temps.
Bella - from what you are saying, it's alot worse than we are being led to believe, which irks me a little.... I feel like we need to be told these things by the docs. Thanks so much for your post.
It's JUST starting to get to me now actually. The fact his temp went up overnight, and that a couple of nurses have said about the anti B's that he's not on. I have faith that he will pull through but the enormity is about to hit me I think.
When I find out more I will update.
Thanks so much for your replies.
xx
Not much change today. He spoke to me on the phone for a few minutes, but he's speaking so softly and slowly..
I've had a few small mini meltdowns today and hoping I can keep it together from now on.
We're going to visit him tomorrow and hopefully find out some more about his condition.
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