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Déjà déjà déjà vu
Mar. 30th, 2011 09:53 pmGod. Damn. It.
Guess who's back in the hospital?
Mom's blood oxygenation levels plummeted in the past few days, down to 80% and then the low 70's (most people's are in the high 90's, she generally runs a bit lower, in the low-to-mid 90's) and she ran a fever so in we went to the pulmonologist.
When they checked her out in the office, she was at 63% saturation and a 101 degree fever. Out came the oxygen tank, on went the cannula, and an ambulance was summoned. Off she was whisked to the emergency room at Fairfax Hospital.
She got a chest X-ray and an EKG (yay! no atrial fibrillation) and a massive dose of antibiotics. Preliminary diagnosis is pneumonia and possibly an infection but nothing definite yet.
I stayed with her for a couple of hours but eventually left because there was no telling when they'd take her up to a room. I've got to call in the morning to find out where she ended up.
I am so fucking sick and tired of this crap. Can't we catch even the smallest of breaks?
Guess who's back in the hospital?
Mom's blood oxygenation levels plummeted in the past few days, down to 80% and then the low 70's (most people's are in the high 90's, she generally runs a bit lower, in the low-to-mid 90's) and she ran a fever so in we went to the pulmonologist.
When they checked her out in the office, she was at 63% saturation and a 101 degree fever. Out came the oxygen tank, on went the cannula, and an ambulance was summoned. Off she was whisked to the emergency room at Fairfax Hospital.
She got a chest X-ray and an EKG (yay! no atrial fibrillation) and a massive dose of antibiotics. Preliminary diagnosis is pneumonia and possibly an infection but nothing definite yet.
I stayed with her for a couple of hours but eventually left because there was no telling when they'd take her up to a room. I've got to call in the morning to find out where she ended up.
I am so fucking sick and tired of this crap. Can't we catch even the smallest of breaks?
