Right before we checked into the hotel in Ortigas Center this afternoon, my mom started vomiting and was twisting in the hotel’s clinic bed because of intense abdominal pain in the lower left side that spreads to the upper left abdomen to the center. Not appendix, the hotel’s nurse said. I rushed her to the nearest hospital’s ER. (A hospital that I had regularly written about). Dehydration for senior citizens is dangerous.

The surgery consultant ruled out food poisoning after lengthy interviews with him and the residents. Physical exam showed that there is no hardening in any part of the abdomen and the pain is not radiating to the back (so not kidney and gall bladder stones). What they’re looking at now is a possible bad case of UTI (the most beign possibility) or an inflamed colon. Her youngest brother is battling GI cancer now so…

Off to CT scan.

Hoping that it’s just UTI. The urinalysis and CBC aren’t back yet so we’re still groping in the dark. Otherwise, we’ll be spending Christmas in this hospital and a colonoscopy or surgery as noche buena.

Welp, for emergency surgery. Blockage in the colon.