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PV and peripheral artery disease PAD

Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Sep 11, 2023 | Replies (13)

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@deannarls

I am so sorry to hear this - I am understandably afraid of the same thing. In what state was your mother treated?

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She had been living in Baton Rouge and treated at Our Lady of the Lake hospital. But she had just moved to live with me in Houston when she got so bad that she wanted me to bring her home to her doctor. Instead I made the mistake of calling him. He insisted instead that I bring her to St Luke's Hospital at the Med Center in Houston. That is where they did the stents after finding the 90 % blockage. They had no history with her and I truly believe that when they tore her veins, they didn't realize until too late that she would bleed to death. She used over 150 units of blood in 21 days to try to stop the bleeding, but at 81 she was so weak. And she missed my dad who had died 4 years earlier and I think she just gave up.
I hope and wish you have better luck and better doctors than she had at the very end.
Blessings to you.