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Old Jul 30, 2016, 07:28 AM
Anonymous35014
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I hope she will be ok. If Tylenol is in her home, it needs to be removed permanently. An OD on Tylenol can cause permanent liver damage and is very dangerous. She would need a liver transplant and likely wouldn't qualify. In a way, it is better she went with Advil.

I took Advil for years trying to control my chronic pain. I didn't want to take opioids. It didn't work but I kept on and remained in pain for twenty years. This led to tears in my stomach and I can never take it again. My pdoc and GP said my pain management must now be through opioids, which is carefully managed.

Hopefully pumping her stomach prevented damage. I had to have a colonoscopy and endoscopy. It wasn't a big deal. Perhaps inquire if she needs those procedures to determine her health status. Ask what she can take in the future for pain. Advil still may be ok it depends on how she fared with getting it out of her system. I personally would remove Tylenol from her home, regardless. Whether she can be at home and manage alone is likely an issue. My personal experience is that being in a Memory Care Unit may be best for her despite likely reluctance by her of needing to leave her home.

I'm no doctor but I have life experience on transplant approval. My mom was denied a kidney transplant.

I am here for you. Are your parents making the primary decisions about all of this? I'm concerned this stress will be unhealthy for you. I shouldered the burden of my mom's dementia and terminal illness. It was very hard. I hope the responsibility does not lay with you. Visiting her and doing small helpful tasks is not a bad thing.
We've removed everything pills wise, but apparently she said she has some of my grandpa's prescriptions stashed away. She's been threatening to take his medication when we're not looking... and she won't tell us where she hid it all. We'll have to clean every inch of her house to find it... and well, her house is a total mess.

But I guess it's a good thing she threatened to take his medication because we'd never know her intentions otherwise.

So far, there doesn't appear to be any damage done to her innards (thankfully), but I'm not sure which tests the hospital plans to do on her, or which tests they already have done.

My parents aren't making the primary decisions. My aunt (my dad's sister) is doing it all for us because she lives about 2 hours away by car. We live about 4 hours away by plane, then an additional 2 hours from the airport.

We've been trying to get her on a plane so that she can be checked out at a hospital here in Boston, but she doesn't have any government-issued ID... which means there's no way she can get on a plane. That's why we haven't done anything with her yet... but we plan to put her in a nursing home. (Where she lives, the hospitals and nursing homes aren't very good.)
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