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Oh I'm sorry to hear this - I know it's got to be very difficult on you and your dad. Will be keeping you both in my thoughts and prayers.

Good luck with your dad, Bob. I know its tough to take care of someone who doesn't co-operate with you. I worry about my mom, she's kind of stopped eating, she's pocketing her food (putting food in her cheek instead of swallowing.) I hope they can quickly and easily take care of your dad.

I am sorry to read this Grandpa Bob and I hope it is nothing serious Please keep me updated on this and I am thinking of you all You did right calling the Doctor no matter what your Dad says

My thoughts and prayers are with you! You do such a wonderful job looking after him and I am glad that you made the appointment to get him in so quickly as it does not sound good to me! Keep us updated as I know you will:) ~Heavens~

Sounds like it may be a prostrate issue. Good that you're looking after matters. Good luck at the doctors office, I truly hope things go well. Once again Thank God for Caregivers.

That doesn't sound good, anytime your passing blood in your urine, isn't a good sign, I don't want to scare you, but its good that your getting him to the doctor, it could be some kind of infection too. Older people are like that, they don't want to go to the doctor even if its something serious and they will lie to you, I did that with my grandpa. He didn't want to go, and he wasn't going, you couldn't make him..lol. One time tho, he really needed to go, he had fallen and hurt his leg and he kept saying he wasn't going to the doctor, well we had to lie to him, I didn't want to do it, but we told him we were going to the store and asked if he wanted to go, he got in the car, and we ended up taking him to the hospital, he was so mad at us. But what else could we do, he needed to be seen. Whenever we're taking care of someone we have to do whats best for them, even if they don't think so. I hope everything works out for your dad, and its not real serious....

Your dad sounds a lot like my mom. Doesn't want to see a doctor for anything and will lie as easy as look at you, lol. Could be a bladder infection. My mom had one when she was in the hospital a while back. Or it could be inflammation. I was passing blood and didn't even know it. The nurse practitioner said mine was a bladder inflammation and its treated with antibiotics the same as infection. I hope its something minor.

Sorry that your dad is having some problems. You did the right thing by taking him to see the doctor. If that was my dad I would do the same thing. I sure hope he gets better soon,

I had so many problems with my mother...she would never tell me how she felt and she didn't exactly verbalize how she felt to her doctors...for instance she would tell them she had a lot of congestion in her throat...well if a person tells that to a doctor what are they to think? That maybe she just has a cold..maybe if she had been more specific they could have discovered her tumor in her esophagus a lot sooner than they did and it might not have been cancerous yet...No GRANDPA BOB..it's NOT easy being a person's caregiver.

I sure hate to hear this about your dad. He sounds like me when it comes to doctor's, I hate going to the doctor. But there are times when there is not getting away with not going. Hopefully the blood is nothing more than just a little infection. I wish him well and I do think you are one great care taker, your dad is lucky to have you there for him.

I'm sorry to hear that. I know what it's like to take care of a parent. My mom can be pretty stubborn at times but she does go to the doctor so for that I can be thankful. Hopefully your dad will cooperate and let you take him to the doctor. My prayers are with you both.

he has to be seen immediately for the diagnosis...i remember myself urinating blood and i went to the doctor immediately that is the time i found out that i have a high albomine infection and took lots of test and medicines...I am just so amaze of how patient you are upon taking care of your daddy...

I am glad that you are on the ball and have managed to get him to the doctors it needs to be sorted. Mind you, I am terrible too when it comes to looking after myself, I will leave and leave a problem until I know for definate that I need to go and be seen. Hope that all is well though for him, you are a very good son to him.

Oh, boy, as embarrassing as it is that was something so important for him to tell you immediately. That's a lot of blood. Now, I don't know much about your dad's health and what I state next may or may not be new to you. They will probably schedule a colonoscopy to check out the intestines. Could be his bladder and/or kidneys, too. Anything bleeding from there is a sign of a problem unless you have hemoroids (sp?) down there and passed extremely hard stool. Still shouldn't bleed that much. Please have him thoroughly checked out no matter what he says. My prayers are with your family.

Hope all is well....maybe just a urnialy track infection. We'll be waiting to hear the results of the doctors visit!

My Dad had an enlarged prostate and if he didn't take his medications, he would get like that. The worst time he ever had was one of the last times he was in the hospital. They didn't give him his Flomax at all. It only took a couple of days for him to get an infection. When you're taking care of someone, you have to watch everybody! Hopefully it will be something they can treat easily, Bob. Good luck to you and your Dad. You're both in my prayers.

Sorry to hear about this. I hope it's nothing really serious and the doctor can do something to get it cleared up soon. Your dad sounds very stubborn.

Oh sorry to hear that. I think that is the behavior of people as they are getting older. They don't want you to worry about them. Same as my parents, as they are getting older they have some physical problems. They would not tell us, they would just say they are ok but the fact is,, they are not. What happened was we know it only when it becomes worst. Caring for our old folks needs close monitoring, like caring a baby.

Hey Grandpa Bob Sorry to hear about your dad. Hopefully it isn't anything too serious. I had a friend who had a similar problem a few years back and it turned out it was just a urine/bladder infection. I know these things can be quite serious so lets hope it is just an infection. Thinking of you. Violetdreams

Hi GRANDPA BOB, So sorry to hear about your dad condition is getting worse, and yes he should be in hospital when they will know why he is bleeding, some men are so stubborn, I just think that he maybe scared but good lick to you and take care. Tamara