Posted by Jerry on 3/30/06 In my previous post I wrote of my father's experience in the hospital after his stroke. I didn't get to see his doctor until he had been in the hospital two days. Perhaps about a year or so ago my father began treatment for atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat. He was put on a medication to keep the heartbeat from getting to high, but that was it. NOW his doctor says as long as he had the AF there was a danger of a blood clot and stroke. My father was never told that. I know that, because I took him in for his doctor visits and went in with him so I'd know what the doctor said. Now the doctor says he could have put my father on a blood thinner, Cudomin(sp?), but he knew my father didn't like to take pills, and that he would need a blood test every 10 days, so he never brough it up. Seems the doctor should have told him about Cudomin and what it was for and left it to my father to decide whether or not he wanted to take it and get the tests. Also, the doctor now says my father should have had a pacemaker put in to help control the heartbeat. Shouldn't he have told my father that BEFORE he had the stroke? It sure didn't do much good after.
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