I'm Having B-Cell Lymphoma, Tracheostomy& Nodules in My Lungs, Do I Have Surgery or Palliative Care?

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I'm Having B-Cell Lymphoma, Tracheostomy& Nodules in My Lungs, Do I Have Surgery or Palliative Care?

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies. And where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated patients and medically-complex patients at home, including Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), Home BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure), Home CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) and also for adults and children that are at home with a tracheostomy but are not ventilated.

Now, in today’s video blog, I want to answer a quick question from one of our readers, John. John is 85 years of age. He says, “I have been diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma, and since then, I’ve had two tumors on my lung. Now I have a nodule on my right lung and a nodule on my tracheostomy. And I have been having a tracheostomy for the last two years. I’m 85. Should I have surgery or should I just go home and have palliative care?”

Now, John, I am very sorry to hear about your situation and it’s a very difficult question to answer here and, I am not an oncologist. I am not a cancer specialist here or you probably need some involvement from a cardiothoracic surgeon. You probably need some input from ENT, from oncology, to see what your next steps are.

Now, from a care perspective, if you do have surgery and then you need to go home potentially with a tracheostomy or on a ventilator, Intensive Care at Home is certainly the right place to do that. Or even if you want to go home and not have surgery and just have palliative care at home, once again, Intensive Care at Home is the right service to choose because we have provided palliative care to many similar clients than yourself to go home for end-of-life care with a tracheostomy sometimes on a ventilator, and they might have end-stage cancer.

But the most important part here is what do you want? Do you want to spend more time in a hospital? Do you want to take the risk of surgery? I can’t answer the question for you.

But what I can offer you is one way or another that you don’t want to spend time in a hospital, which is evident from your email and you want to go home, whether that’s after surgery or going home without surgery for palliative care one way or another we can help you with that by sending our intensive care nurses to you, and your family making sure you don’t need to go back to hospital and have quality of life and quality of end of life at home in the comfort of your own home.

I really hope that answers your question. I know that’s a very difficult situation for you John. And it takes careful consideration for you to make a decision. I encourage you to reach out to us here at intensivecareathome.com. Give us a call on one of the numbers on the top of our website or send us an email to [email protected]. So we can look into your situation further and guide you through it step by step.

Now, if you have a family member in intensive care on long-term ventilation, tracheostomy, BiPAP, CPAP ventilation, Home TPN or TPN requirements, IV electrolyte infusion requirements such as potassium, magnesium, IV antibiotics. You should reach out to us because we can help you get your loved one out of intensive care as quickly as possible. And help you there, if you’re at home already and you have insufficient support.

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