Moms' Health

We took another trip to the Emergency room last night with my mom, being treated for High blood pressure and being on 9 different prescriptions we figured she was on a road to recovery of some sort. Just having been released for the hospital 6 days ago for same condition!!! So we go to yesterday and she feels sluggish and has very little strength or drive, blood pressure was low and pulse was even lower, something is not right... again. So we eventually decide to call the Paramedics per the on call Dr. Orders form Kaiser. The Paramedics arrived and were alarmed at the weak pulse so they made the decision to take her in for a check to the ER. Once in the ER they were able to get her settled and try to figure out what the heck was causing this opposite affect of what we was initially being treated for. Come to find out of the medications one was causing her to dehydrate and make her feel light headed and weak, yet the Dr tells her to keep her liquid intake down due to the congestive heart condition she had faced earlier this year. so how to keep hydrated when you have an order for low liquid intake is beyond me, and one of the prescribed meds is causing dehydration. Well She has been trying to get this fixed for 2 years now and we are about ready to ditch the Medical insurance route and go to UCLA and get some real results. My 75 year old Mother should not spend her last years visiting ER's and urgent care facilities to solve very fundamental illness'. So today she has 2 Appts with specialists to figure out the medications and slowly ween her off of some and see what it causing the spike in BP and then the fall. hopefully the Kidney Dr will have a better plan of attack that 3 hospital stays and 4 trips to ER this year could not solve. Step it up or get out of the way , This hopefully could be the beginning of a positive fix , or so we are hoping. Really sad to think that I had lost all hope on the Medical industry and lost patience with their overly procedural attitude and no aggressive means of healing sick people. But as long as they have a prescription pad they can call themselves healers!