Mm, you've convinced me!
So now I've learned something about cirrhosis of the liver... Wouldn't
a person be feeling pretty horrible by the time the disease got to this
point? I'm remembering that he'd been playing with the kids, had
apparently felt find to that point. What else could cause that besides
alcoholism?
Shannon


On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Luise Kunkle wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Robert & Shannon Nelson wrote:
>
>> But could any of these situations (I recognize some, but not all) be
>> related to the strangest part--that after death on pressure to the
>> chest he bled from mouth, nose, ears?
>>
> Perhaps the putting on of weight was not fat but edema, anasarka?
>
> In that case it may have been a liver pathology, e.g. cirrhosis of
> liver, this causing a sort of shunt to the vessels in the throat
> region. They burst, because they are not made to withstand that kind
> of pressure and massive bleeding occurs. This may have been the blood.
> This is often the cause of death with cirrhosis of the liver.
>
> Disorder of the liver leading to cirrhosis often also involves
> thrombocytopenia or such, so that the blood does not clot. This then
> would make the bleeding even more severe. It may also explain why some
> time after death the blood was still fluid, which it seems to have
> been from the account.
>
> Regards
>
> Luise