Soooooo......

[RStar]

My wife is in the hospital after having deydration, kidnyes shutting down and C02 Acidosis. She is intubated right now, and under general anastesia so she is asleep. She is responding to treatment, her kidney function more slowly than the rest, but as expected. They feel she won't need dialysis at this point. She's in ICU right now, but stable and improving.

After loosing my brother two weeks ago, I don't need this.

I just hope she gets better and can attend our daughter's wedding on the 26th.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by RStar

My wife is in the hospital after having deydration, kidnyes shutting down and C02 Acidosis. She is intubated right now, and under general anastesia so she is asleep. She is responding to treatment, her kidney function more slowly than the rest, but as expected. They feel she won't need dialysis at this point. She's in ICU right now, but stable and improving.

After loosing my brother two weeks ago, I don't need this.

I just hope she gets better and can attend our daughter's wedding on the 26th.

Oh my goodness! I'm glad to hear she's stable and improving.

I'm sorry I don't recall - is your wife ill (I mean other than this?) What causes this sort of thing to happen?

[RStar]

She has had 4 back surgeries, has type 1 diabeties and hypertension which are well under control, and anxiety. But nothing that would cause this. She is on xanax for anxiety, morphine for pain, high blood preasure meds, antidepresants, and diabetes meds.

She got a real bad bout of diarrhea and stomach cramping (possibly from a stomach bug) for 5 days. She couldn't eat or drink much, and got extremely dehydrated. This caused her kidneys to begin to shut down. As they did (because we didn't know it was happening), she continued to take her regular doses of medication, which the kidneys couldn't process completely causing an unsafe level of meds in her system (over doseing if you will). The metformin for her diabetes in particular is hard on failing kidneys, and she became toxic. Her breathing became shallow and caused her C02 levels to rise and O2 levels to drop. And the dehydration caused her blood preasure to go down, and with the increase blood levels of her blood preasure meds forced it down further. Her brain wasn't getting enough blood, and couldn't function properly.