Rhonda, I think, tell the doctors the truth.

earlier, Rhonda, wrote:
>My mother is in the hospital in icu,  they say she has pneumonia, she has a
>tube down her throat helping her breathe.
>She doesn't seem to be doing very well.
>The problem I have is this, my mom has a drug problem, she abuses prescribed
>drugs, pain medications, nerve pills.  She often takes too many of these and
>is groggy and sleeps a lot.
>So now that she  is in the hospital because my dad couldn't get her to wake
>up, he isn't telling the doctors about all the medications she is taking! my
>parents have custody of my sisters girls who are 15 and 12, so they fear
>telling the hospital all the medicines worrying about what family services
>will think.  My position is that if my mother is to receive the care she
>needs, the doctors need to know everything.
>My dad says they will find it all out through blood tests, I fear they do
>not know everything and so could be giving her medication she does not need.
>The doctor came in this evening and said she had a massive heartattack,
>so I am inclined to tell the doctors the truth, and who ever wants too can
>be angry, what do you all think?
>
>Rhonda

John

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