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 The slower you work, the less mistakes you make !