#SHORT VERSION#
things got worse, now she's better- but not yet out of the danger zone.
DETAILS:
MY sis had seen her Fri night &PM. SHe wasn't great, but not
terrible. She originally was in ICU Tues, then was moved down to a regular roomat some point. Maybe Weds.
Luckly for us the hospital is just a few block from my sis's home.
SO She was sent baqck to the ICU. They called my sis several times between 3:00A - 5:30AM finally woke her up.
SHe triend calling me at 5:30A etc but (and I don't often hear the phone down the hall from my room - I often sleep strong, soone of my roomate's finally heard it at 7:20. SO I finally got the call.
I better get up there.
One of my sis's friends is a nurse, so she got up there fairly early.
I got there by about 9:30- that's 3 subway trains, a shuttle bur & a regular bus. I made very good time.
Mom had gotten to a whisper talking wise.
SO they put a stronger Breather mask device on her. later they added a broncho-dialater (helps the big paasageways in the lungs).
Her pulse rate got much bettere esp as she slet, but even sometimes when she was awake.
They had a little clip on device with electric attachment and it monitors the oxygen in the blood. SHe was not getting 96- 97 out of 100 (best), and by the time we left a buch of hours later it was 98-99 and even 100.
The have here on bloodthinners to dissolve the pulmonary clot. They think it might be affecting her pulse rate and breathing. At one point it seemed she had too much CO2 (carbon dioxide) what we breath out.
Fri night before she got bad, but knew she was kind of in trouble she said to my sis "I'm too young to die"....so her inntitial reaction was to possibly disregard our Mom's
DNR: Do Not ressusitaTE.
WHen the pulse is gone.
what we went out to have lunch (it was safe for us to leave), after we went elsewhere in the nabe and discussed the Awful Stuff.
From what the doctor who spent time talking with her earlier in the week.....
...Mom didn't seem to want a tube in - so the machine would brerath for her > like they sometimes do in Surgery, but then it's removed.
This is because she'd be totally confined to her room in the Nursing Home she is in. WHich would really pretty much ruin her quality of life.
While at one point she wouldn't continue to try usinmg the walker ( ? 2 yrs in ), she plooped herself down in a wheelchair, and that was that.
But she'd walk herself around the home to various spots and activities. ANd elevators too).
When she could no longer use the wheel chair after summer 96 when they discovered she had dislocated shoulder & atrophied rotator cuff muscle (shoulder) she DEMANDED a motor-chair. Everyonne said because of hoew curved down her back was (osteoperosis- decades of the old steroids for bad asthma)- sahe could never learn.
But she did! And they got a donated motor-chairt for her.
SO she loves her
independence. SHe goes outsdie on the beautiful grounds. She goes to the library to get her books. ANd visits our dad in another part of the complex.
this is why the intubation would probaly be wrong for her wishes.
I wanted them to use "the paddles" if her heart gave out....my sis wasn't so sure being it was against the DNR.
I said what If that was the oNE thing that could maybe used just that time--would get her past the danger zone.I said I wasn't ready to let her (our mom) go [weep, weep, weep]
My sis is HER Health Proxy- so my sis has the final decision. I said well I might be made at you for a while off & on...but I wouldn't let it destroy our realationship.
It turns out as we talked all of this through...we needed more info from the docs. SO we got back. We kept talking to the doctor off on as he ahd to attend to other things as well.
But
then it turned out docs info......to bring back the pulse if it goes...they have to do the tube thing too, so that is a no go.
they will all they can up to that point....all other medicnes breath stuff etc. THey are treating her quite well, as gentle as they can.
SHe has had bad colds before.. But they think this might be more bronchitis. She was in the same hopsital abut a year ago for a bad asthma attck- luckily those have been quite rae for her in the paST 20 + yrs ESP compared to the first 15 yrs or so.
theyu wonder but don't know for sure whether her lungs are suddenly getting weaker becuase of decaDES OF ASTHMA.The clot may be a factoor, but they not sure it is reccent.
ANyway...
that's the current story.
I will be going home, and hopefully get NO EMERGENCY calls tomorrow.
ray:
ray:
ray:
MY sis will visit her in the morningish, I'll check in withher and visit mom later.
It was actually a VERY STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL *SPRING* Day today (and I didn't let it get away, as it helped to keep me calmer than possibly other wise).
I'll post tommorrow.
ANd ***THANK YOU ALL ***again.
us HURRY those pneunomia pathogens & fliuds AWAY..... FASTER!!!!!! 
