Hospital life is an alternate universe where time is different, people are different.,and we start ed to realise all those things ..the" value of life".. I’ve gotten so sick of myself with my 5 days spending in hospital...just dont know where am i now?live or not?where ?...still cant able to cme back to my non-hospital life....
Just imagine a crowd of anxious people outside the entrance of a door with a guard inside the room resisting the people from getting inside. So what do you assume by this crowd who wants to get inside the gallery? No, it's not a movie hall or a restaurant but the crowd that I am referring to is the relatives, who wish to have a look at their friends/spouse/wife/mother/parents/sons/husband/daughter/....etc who are inside the ICU (Intensive Care Unit.)
Yes, this was the darkest day of life for the person who was inside the ICU as well as their relatives who were both confused as well as worried about them.My uncle was suffering from liver cirrhosis.Now what is it?
Cirrhosis (say "suh-ROH-sus") is a very serious condition in which scarring damages the liver. The liver is a large organ that is part of the digestive system It does a wide range of complex jobs that are vital for life. For example, the liver: - Makes many important substances, including bile to help digest food and clotting factirs. to help stop bleeding.
- Controls the amounts of sugar, protein, and fat in the bloodstream.
- Stores important vitamins and minerals, including iron.
- Filters poisons from the blood.
- Breaks down (metabolizes) alcohol and many drugs.
When a person has cirrhosis, scar tissue replaces healthy tissue and prevents the liver from working as it should. For example, the liver may stop producing enough clotting factors, which can lead to bleeding and bruising. Bile and poisons may build up in the blood. Scarring can also cause high blood pressure in the vein that carries blood from the intestines through the liver . This can lead to severe bleeding in the digestive tract and other serious problems.
Cirrhosis can be deadly. But early treatment can help stop damage to the liver.
What causes cirrhosis?
Cirrhosis can have many causes. Some of the main ones include:
- Long-term, heavy use of alcohol.
- autoimmune hepatitis or primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).
- Blocked bile ducts. A disease called primary biliary cirrhosis develops when the ducts that carry bile out of the liver become inflamed and blocked.
- Inherited diseases,
Less common causes of cirrhosis include severe reactions to medicines or long-term exposure to poisons, such as arsenic. Some people have cirrhosis without an obvious cause.
What are the symptoms?
You may not have symptoms in the early stages of cirrhosis. As it progresses, it can cause a number of symptoms, including:
- Extreme tiredness and weakness.
- Nosebleeds and easy bruising.
- Weight loss.
- Belly pain or discomfort.
- Yellowing of the skin
- Itching.
- Fluid buildup in the legs, called edema (say "ih-DEE-muh"), and in the belly, called ascites (say "uh-SIGH-teez").
- Bleeding in the stomach or in the esophagus, the tube that leads from the mouth to the stomach.
How is it treated?
Liver damage from cirrhosis cannot be reversed, but treatment can stop or delay a worsening of the damage and reduce complications. The first important step is to remove what is causing the damage, if possible. For example, if your cirrhosis is caused by alcohol abuse, you must stop drinking any alcohol. Treatment for hepatitis-related cirrhosis involves medicines used to treat the different types of hepatitis, such as interferon for viral hepatitis. If an intestinal bypass for obesity is the cause, the bypass needs to be surgically reversed.
In all cases, regardless of the cause, having a healthy diet is essential because the body needs all the recommended nutrients to keep the tissues healthy. To keep from hurting your liver more, you must not drink any alcohol. Because your liver is not working properly, you may need vitamin supplements and may have to change your diet.
Cirrhosis can cause problems in other parts of your body and these will need to be treated. For example, fluid may build up in your abdomen. Or you may have bleeding from the esophagus, causing bloody vomit, or bleeding in the stomach, causing bloody or tarlike bowel movements. Medicine can help control the buildup of fluid in the abdomen. Surgery may be needed to treat sites of bleeding in the stomach and esophagus.
A liver transplant is the ultimate treatment for cirrhosis. If the cause of the cirrhosis, such as alcohol abuse, can be removed or controlled and if you are healthy enough, a transplant is an option. But liver transplants are very expensive. Not all insurers will pay for liver transplants for all conditions. Also, the wait for a liver to transplant may be too long.
How long will the effects last?
If the liver continues to be injured, the cirrhosis will get worse and more liver cells will stop working. This can lead to death.
If there is no further injury, the cirrhosis may not get worse and the remaining unscarred cells will continue to do the important work of the liver.
I just want you guys to know about all these problems ...there are so many ppl who wr drinking so much ..they dont know what is happening in them? one must keep cpntrol over this...the after effects are very crucial ..one can't imagine all that... in these days i had seen all those stuffs.. very painful... only the victims is not suffering the pain.. the relatives,friends,..all......it destroys everything in your life...when you realises all these things you may be too late....
Ask any child, partner, or parent with an alcoholic in the family and they will tell you that when someone they love drinks alcohol compulsively, the effects are painful. Alcohol addiction is a disease that destroys families. Alcoholism can derail a family’s day-to-day existence, rob them of their financial security, and cause such harmful emotional damage that many family members live their lives scarred from its caustic effects.
As a chronic disease, alcoholism destroys relationships (including marriages) and lives. It often causes a great deal of denial and lying about drinking behavior, and it isolates a person from loved ones. People who drink are often depressed and seek an outlet to numb those negative feelings, but it backfires. In the end, alcoholism destroys life of the alcoholic and adversely affects those around him or her.
when I started to know about all these things I just wanted to share about all the stuff with you guys...please take it seriously ...
Coming back to the hospital life..............
This was the disease that my uncle got these days...t.I think its the crucial stage of life waiting outside and asking permission to some strangers to see our loved ones whom we wr seen all the time...I just hate this thing... its better to die in home than in hospital..atleast we can be with our loved ones in the last hours....When I entered the ICU i just wondered ...I saw the patients covered with wires all around and you could hardly recognize who is your relative as different types of wires are put on their face with a small monitoring machine and there were not just one machine but a couple of them.Then I saw my uncle..he is better than the other patients..At one glance to a patient near my uncle, I saw an old man who was struggling for life. I was so surprised to see the nurses being so calm and comfort with their duty in providing the old man with some oxygen masks or some stuffs which I did not have any idea about it, but the man was struggling and I could hear his breath gasping out loud. This made me to think, "Did he ever think of having such a painful life?", "Will he be able to come out of this painful situation?"...etc
Well, this was the darkest days of my life. I came out of the ICU and went out . The picture of the old man, his eyes, the sound of his breath...etc disturbed me a lot and I could not concentrate my mind. Then I saw a couple who were very happy when coming back to home in bus... Then I thought for a while that a time will come when they will become old one day. Will they remember those beautiful days that they enjoyed, the jokes they cracked, the beautiful romantic evening? But I thought that how stupid I was to think that way.
When one member of a family stays in a hospital then the whole family has to undergo the tensions and sufferings caused due to the patient. Whatever be, everybody wants their relatives for a speedy recovery. But one thing that I want to say you that just visit a hospital once in a month and see the dark side of life. Sounds stupid again, I guess. But try to be practical.
Life is not really a bed of roses. The thorns are too thorny and they may prick you in no time. I am not saying that you should not enjoy life but what I mean is that just experience the bitter tastes of life.Waking up in the morning, speeding up to the office, returning back to the four walls of your room after 8-9 hrs of work is not life at all. So, what I mean is that one should also tastes the dark side of life. So enjoy life and also have a bitter taste of life because nobody knows what future holds for you tomorrow. You will never be able to forget those depressing moments in your entire lifetime.
But get prepared in life for the calamity that you will have to face inthe course of your life