Some of you may or may not know, but my mother has MS (multiple sclerosis (you can read more about it here
[link])). She's had it for about 20 years and was able to walk for about 14 years, then only recently in the past 6 years did she become wheelchair bound. Since then, her condition has stabilized, which is great, because MS is fucking awful. In the past 5-6 months, she has been slowly getting weaker and lacking energy. None of us knew why, but we suspected it was the MS finally starting to get worse, which was stressing everyone out. About a week ago we learned that she was really fucking anemic. When we finally took another blood test, the nurse said that she needed to be admitted to a hospital right away. According to the doctors she had lost about 2/3 of her blood, and could have gone into cardiac arrest at any time for basically the past 1-2 months.
Now my mother lives by herself and has someone come a couple of times a week in the morning to clean, get groceries and do things she can't. Had she gone into cardiac arrest, she would have without a doubt, died. Which is not only freaking me the fuck out but making me unbelievably mad at her doctor. Her doctor knew about her blood count being ridiculously low and did nothing about it. The doctor just said "Oh it's nothing, just take more vitamins".
My mother was admitted to the hospital last night, and has gotten a couple of blood transfusions, so she's doing much, much better now. Unfortunately, they still don't know what caused her to lose so much blood. At the moment they are worried that she might be internally bleeding in her colon. I don't know how treatable that is or what you would do to fix it, but I hope to fuck that it goes well, because if the outcome of this mistake isn't my mom being 200% better, my entire family is going to shit in every orifice of her doctor before we beat her to death with golf clubs.