Samuel Allen Flannery was his name. He would be my great-uncle. William and Grace Flannery were his parents. They brought him into this world on May 30, 1951. So, he would be 63 if you go by today’s year. However, I’m talking about when he was 59 years old .However, at this age he had overcome many drug related problems. Yet, this is a fatal illness and a daily challenge. This was not a recent illness, it was one he had battled for most of his life.
At the age of 54 he started vomiting blood and passing out. At this time he thought he had cirrhosis; this is a self-diagnosis. Cirrhosis is a condition when the liver slowly deteriorates. The reason he thought he had this was he watched and help my grandma Jenny. She had this disease. So, he …show more content…
They immediately take him back and get him hooked up to IVS and monitors. This is when we found out that he had stage 4 cancer. He didn’t hear the doctor say this. They also diagnosed him with ascites. This is a condition where you retained fluid. They admitted him to Our Lady of Bellefonte hospital so he could have the fluid removed. This was the first time he had ever been hospitalized overnight. The next day they come in to do their vitals and other things they do before sending a patients for their procedures. We go to the house to get his hospital bed installed there. So he can come home on hospice, we left my aunt there to talk to the doctors and just keep an eye on him. While we was gone to get the bed installed the doctor comes in to discuss his condition and the procedure he is about to undergo. He had no idea that he had stage 4 cancer and there was nothing they could do for him. He told them to either give him a gun so he could kill himself or give him more pain medication. So, now he quit fighting for his life he had basically gave up. However they did give him more pain medication which knocked him out then they want him to sign a release from to have the fluid withdrawn and where he wasn’t alert he couldn’t sign it. Then they wanted mom’s power of attorney papers which we couldn’t find. So they sent him home without do the
At the age of 54 he started vomiting blood and passing out. At this time he thought he had cirrhosis; this is a self-diagnosis. Cirrhosis is a condition when the liver slowly deteriorates. The reason he thought he had this was he watched and help my grandma Jenny. She had this disease. So, he …show more content…
They immediately take him back and get him hooked up to IVS and monitors. This is when we found out that he had stage 4 cancer. He didn’t hear the doctor say this. They also diagnosed him with ascites. This is a condition where you retained fluid. They admitted him to Our Lady of Bellefonte hospital so he could have the fluid removed. This was the first time he had ever been hospitalized overnight. The next day they come in to do their vitals and other things they do before sending a patients for their procedures. We go to the house to get his hospital bed installed there. So he can come home on hospice, we left my aunt there to talk to the doctors and just keep an eye on him. While we was gone to get the bed installed the doctor comes in to discuss his condition and the procedure he is about to undergo. He had no idea that he had stage 4 cancer and there was nothing they could do for him. He told them to either give him a gun so he could kill himself or give him more pain medication. So, now he quit fighting for his life he had basically gave up. However they did give him more pain medication which knocked him out then they want him to sign a release from to have the fluid withdrawn and where he wasn’t alert he couldn’t sign it. Then they wanted mom’s power of attorney papers which we couldn’t find. So they sent him home without do the