In hospital twice in 2 months. UTI went sepsis both times. In home hospice care 6 weeks and she passed in her sleep. Close to 94. My heart is broken. Will a cure ever be found?
Hello Cindyn, My thoughts and prayers are with you. I am so sorry. I know how difficult it is for my 98 year old mother suffers from chronic UTI's, some are so severe she is hospitalized. Her urologist is hopeful there will be a cure someday. I hope there will be a cure in the near future. I did lots of research on the subject and found there are some clinical trials going on for women that are susceptible for UTI's, but not too close for a cure as of yet. My heart goes out to you. Big hug.
I am so sorry for your loss. I am uncertain what you mean by "will there ever be a cure". A cure for what? The treatment for a UTI is antibiotics. When things go septic, there often is no cure. This means that all bacteria are rampaging through all systems via the blood. Every single system is under assault and when one goes down, be it kidney or heart, the other major systems quickly collapse. It is much more difficult for a body system that is aged and under assault of the aging process, the heart being a severely weakened pump with normal aging, to come out of sepsis. It took my brother from what started as a simple sore on his leg that moved to cellulitis, and then to full body sepsis. He was 85. Our antibiotics don't work well any more. Drug companies dislike doing a lot of research on new ones as unlike a pill taken daily for say blood pressure or for cholesterol, antibiotics are NOT moneymakers. So while many bugs are now resistant to the current available antibiotics, few new ones are on the horizon. There is no cure for age. And many illnesses, while they may have a "cure", are able to overwhelm our treatments. To live to the age of 94 even a century ago would have been looked at as somewhat miraculous. Death is not uncommon even in illness in the very very young. I am so sorry for your loss and for your grief. I am relieved you had hospice.
I remain hopeful seeing how a vaccines using MRNA were developed so quickly and are now being researched for use in cancer. Crispr, a gene-editing tool is being researched and perhaps will eventually help with Alzheimer’s. But the COVID vaccines had a lot of pressure behind their development and a lot of money. So I wonder what will bring the money and the effort at that level to Alzheimer’s research and development? When a president(Reagan) and a famous folk singer (Glen Campbell)and many others don’t cause an upheaval in donations, what will? Much of the research and drug development now surrounds eliminating amyloid plaques and tau tangles and some trials show the disease can be slowed this way. BUT the researchers will admit there is a process going on in Alzheimer’s that they do not understand that is beyond clearing out plaques and tangles in the brain. But that brings me to you and in a way to us. Your question speaks of the sadness of your loss. Even if a cure was found tomorrow it is too late for you and your Mom and you would have regrets that it wasn’t here sooner. And many of us are just waiting for the time our loved one will eventually pass from the disease and understand the despair and empathize with your feelings. We do what we can with many mixed emotions. We deal with family. We pray. But mostly we feel hopeless in changing this disease ourselves. I am deeply sorry for your loss as are those who write here. But so many people are in so many different kinds of pain these days and call out to the heavens, “Why me?” And the answer I have heard is “Why not?” Suffering and death comes to all of us and the best that we can hope for is for friends, family and even the strangers we meet here on this site to help us by holding our pain with us.
My condolences on the loss of your mom. I hope you can take comfort in your memmories of her.
Will a cure ever be found? We all certainly hope so. There are so many diseases that yet don't have a cure. Some don't even have a treatment. My grandfather died in 1952 of ALS. Where does science stand on any progress for that? No where.
Research continues. Every year there seems to be a new, promising treatment. Look into the research and think about participating. Go to trialmatch.org to see if there are opportunities that you qualify for.
My thoughts and prayers are with you. I am so sorry. I know how difficult it is for my 98 year old mother suffers from chronic UTI's, some are so severe she is hospitalized. Her urologist is hopeful there will be a cure someday. I hope there will be a cure in the near future. I did lots of research on the subject and found there are some clinical trials going on for women that are susceptible for UTI's, but not too close for a cure as of yet. My heart goes out to you. Big hug.
I am uncertain what you mean by "will there ever be a cure". A cure for what? The treatment for a UTI is antibiotics. When things go septic, there often is no cure. This means that all bacteria are rampaging through all systems via the blood. Every single system is under assault and when one goes down, be it kidney or heart, the other major systems quickly collapse. It is much more difficult for a body system that is aged and under assault of the aging process, the heart being a severely weakened pump with normal aging, to come out of sepsis. It took my brother from what started as a simple sore on his leg that moved to cellulitis, and then to full body sepsis. He was 85.
Our antibiotics don't work well any more. Drug companies dislike doing a lot of research on new ones as unlike a pill taken daily for say blood pressure or for cholesterol, antibiotics are NOT moneymakers. So while many bugs are now resistant to the current available antibiotics, few new ones are on the horizon.
There is no cure for age. And many illnesses, while they may have a "cure", are able to overwhelm our treatments.
To live to the age of 94 even a century ago would have been looked at as somewhat miraculous. Death is not uncommon even in illness in the very very young.
I am so sorry for your loss and for your grief. I am relieved you had hospice.
But that brings me to you and in a way to us. Your question speaks of the sadness of your loss. Even if a cure was found tomorrow it is too late for you and your Mom and you would have regrets that it wasn’t here sooner. And many of us are just waiting for the time our loved one will eventually pass from the disease and understand the despair and empathize with your feelings. We do what we can with many mixed emotions. We deal with family. We pray. But mostly we feel hopeless in changing this disease ourselves. I am deeply sorry for your loss as are those who write here. But so many people are in so many different kinds of pain these days and call out to the heavens, “Why me?” And the answer I have heard is “Why not?” Suffering and death comes to all of us and the best that we can hope for is for friends, family and even the strangers we meet here on this site to help us by holding our pain with us.
Will a cure ever be found? We all certainly hope so. There are so many diseases that yet don't have a cure. Some don't even have a treatment. My grandfather died in 1952 of ALS. Where does science stand on any progress for that? No where.
Research continues. Every year there seems to be a new, promising treatment. Look into the research and think about participating. Go to trialmatch.org to see if there are opportunities that you qualify for.
Also, https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/research.progress/clinical-trials