Hello,
My MIL who is 76 has been diagnosed with Myeloma. She’s had a blood test by hematology and is booked in to get a bone marrow biopsy on Monday. We suspect she’s been suffering with pain for a while, she retired at 74 and has always been active albeit she had back pain from osteoporosis. Not long after her retirement she started losing weight, there were recurrent urine infections and she had some unexplained falls. She was admitted into hospital 10 weeks ago and initially they said it was old osteoporosis fractures causing her pain, she was treated for e coli in her urine and after basic physio and being left in bed they discharged her.
Unfortunately she was admitted again after 5 days with dual incontinence, another urine infection and this time her treatment has been great.
She had CT scans and an MRI which showed lesions on her spine and her vertebrae which were crushed even further down.
She’s so poorly and its as if her body is rotting from the inside out. Her bowel movements smell like death, its not like normal poo smell. Her mobility is poor, her muscles have wasted away and we are so worried what the biopsy will show. Will she be able to cope with any treatment? At the moment she’s on steroids to try and reduce a mass of inflammation around the lesions. They want to try and get a biopsy from these spinal lesions but they want the marrow one first.
The weight she has lost since September is about 3 stone, they haven’t weighed her since she came back in. I should ask about that getting weighed shouldn’t I?
She has bruises from getting bloods and a canula in that haven’t faded this time, we are trying not to think the worst.
Has anyone been as low as this weight wise and incontinent and come back from it?
It’s so hard because I see her everyday and feel that I’m watching her fade away. My Husband, her son, works away 2 weeks at a time and he got such a shock when he visited last weekend. The change in 2 weeks was dreadful.
I’m so sorry I feel I’m rambling now. I’m hoping she’s in the best place, Ayr hospital, now in a good ward compared to the last one. Her brother passed away 6 years ago and he had Myeloma complications.
Thank you for reading this far. ❤️
