Hospital tips for a very obese patient plus mistakes we made
I will set the scene
My wife is a very large lady well over 600lbs during Christmas and after her health declined rapidly. She put on a huge amount of weight in a short space of time 20 kilos in 10 days and her skin had swollen hard area that weren’t there before.
We’re currently residing in the uk.The doctor on a zoom call as she couldn’t get out of bed easily put this down to overeating at Christmas. Six weeks later with steady weight gain her breathing problems getting worse but after a district nurse come out to take bloods he saw her state contacted the doctor and a bariatric ambulance was called and we were off,
Our mistakes so far, taking the doctors explanation and not getting them to come and see her as the receptionist had said they don’t do home visits often.
Things we got right these things you need if you have a larger partner or relative
We had a recent accurate weight( she’s weighed once a week) titis is very important for medical doses etc and the hospital scale only went up to
287 lbs. She was 740 pounds or 52 stone
We had a planned route out of the property which worked heavy use of towels for support.
We had a large capacity wheelchair .
We had an emergency bag, meds lotions good toilet paper antiseptic wipes long t shirt style night wear etc
That part went reasonably smoothly and the paramedic team were fantastic
I will continue you the next part in the hospital later
My wife is a very large lady well over 600lbs during Christmas and after her health declined rapidly. She put on a huge amount of weight in a short space of time 20 kilos in 10 days and her skin had swollen hard area that weren’t there before.
We’re currently residing in the uk.The doctor on a zoom call as she couldn’t get out of bed easily put this down to overeating at Christmas. Six weeks later with steady weight gain her breathing problems getting worse but after a district nurse come out to take bloods he saw her state contacted the doctor and a bariatric ambulance was called and we were off,
Our mistakes so far, taking the doctors explanation and not getting them to come and see her as the receptionist had said they don’t do home visits often.
Things we got right these things you need if you have a larger partner or relative
We had a recent accurate weight( she’s weighed once a week) titis is very important for medical doses etc and the hospital scale only went up to
287 lbs. She was 740 pounds or 52 stone
We had a planned route out of the property which worked heavy use of towels for support.
We had a large capacity wheelchair .
We had an emergency bag, meds lotions good toilet paper antiseptic wipes long t shirt style night wear etc
That part went reasonably smoothly and the paramedic team were fantastic
I will continue you the next part in the hospital later
