Please pray for my Mom she's in real trouble

[Ghost_Tracker]

One entire lung is filled up with fluid. We're rushing to the hospital. Please pray, she's in real trouble.

[Betsy]

There is a candle burning on my desk here at work in your mom's honor.

You are not alone. Please keep us updated.

(I now have two candles...one for your mom and one for Jonathan in the Lindsey forum.)

[estranged4life]

Sending you my thoughts, Been there with my Mother and didnt enjoy the outcome...

Hang in there!!!

[jannieC]

My thoughts are with you and your mom. I really hope everything turns out well.

[Steviefan49]

One entire lung is filled up with fluid. We're rushing to the hospital. Please pray, she's in real trouble.

Aww.. sorry to hear about this. My thoughts and prayers are with you, and her at this time.

Hugs to you,

Arlene

[suzyvermoesen]

My thoughts are with you and your mom.
Stay strong.

Suzy

[gretchen]

You are in my thoughts today.

[sara1998]

I'm sorry honey... My prayers are with you.

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Sending you my best wishes. I hope she's ok

[kathy1]

your mom will be in my prayers.

[michelle2677]

One entire lung is filled up with fluid. We're rushing to the hospital. Please pray, she's in real trouble.

hope your mom is doing okay :nod:


but..umm....if you're rushing to the hospital....get off the ledge :laugh: :shrug:

[GODDESS6]

best wishes & prayers for you & your mom~

[Ghost_Tracker]

Thank you very much everyone. The situation's bad, but it's not as bad as it could be. But please imagine yourself being at home and going through this scenario -

(It turned out that there was a MAJOR screw-up at my Mom's care center where she's recovering from her stroke - somehow they had her down as a "D.N.R." - "Do Not Resuscitate." She's most definitely not - we feel that she has every chance to recover and should receive all the care possible. We had told the hospital a couple of weeks back, during her admission there, that she is not D.N.R.)

So imagine you're sitting at home minding your own business, and you get a phone call. Your Mom has a collapsed lung. There's a VERY serious situation. You need to get to the hospital RIGHT NOW.

I swear, I thought maybe there was a real, actual possibility that she had died.

They wanted us there for other reasons than just paperwork but at least it's not as bad as I was imagining. But it turns out that a large part of the serious situation was that they wanted to clear this up. It's certainly not something one would wish for but at least she's still alive, and she's doing somewhat better now than she was this morning. We talked things over with the Doctors and unfortunately it looks like they're going to have to treat her more aggressively. So she's going back on a respirator. After she had the stroke and the brain surgery to treat it, it had taken a month to wean her off of the respirator. This is definitely a step back. But the Doctors feel that her real problem right now isn't really so much infection, but that she needs to be more alert and awake so that she'll sense that she needs to cough and can get that crap out of there herself. It also can maybe help to physically force things in her lungs to start moving around, and they will be able to put some sort of a tube in, associated with the respirator, which will help them to suction the fluid out. So I guess we're going to take 3 steps back in order to take 5 steps forward. There's also a procedure called a "Third Ventriculostomy" which she might be able to have, which can decrease the pressure in her brain ventricles. That would help her to be much more alert and awake. So once we get her healthy enough for that, she can have that procedure done and can then get and keep her lungs healthier and healthier, by breathing and coughing better. And then she gets better and better, and can start receiving speech therapy again etc. So at least we have a plan of attack now, and the doctors seem to have a better understanding of what's going on and why.

Thanks very much everyone for your continued prayers.

[mylittledemon]

One entire lung is filled up with fluid. We're rushing to the hospital. Please pray, she's in real trouble.

I've said a few prayers for you and yours already. Much love to you.

[darklinensuit]

Wishing you best.

- Jake

[Ghost_Tracker]

Thank you very much, everyone.
She's doing a little bit better.
The Doctors have decided that it's not currently necessary to put her on a respirator. She's somehow managing now to maintain very good oxygen levels even using just one lung. Yesterday her "oxygen saturation" - the way they measure how well her lungs are doing, etc. - was staying at 100%, 99% at the lowest. (When the emergency happened, she was down at least to 83% - that's bad.)
So they still have her in intensive care. (She's on VERY HIGH oxygen by the way - at the care center they had the oxygen device set at 2.5 or 3 - now they have it set at 10.)

At any rate, she's still very sick, but she's doing a little better now. They've been able to get some of the fluid out of there and I think maybe that's helping. She's also still on very heavy antibiotics for the hip infection. Hopefully she's recovering from that too.

Thanks again, everyone.

[kathy1]

i hope everything goes ok for your mom. i know it is hard especially during the holidays.