ALRIGHT Y'ALL
a bit of an update. a kinda stupid update. stupid because it's no bueno.
Mama came out of surgery a little wheezy, but that was normal. it didn't get bad until a few days ago, and after a particularly bad 5AM wake-up by her wheezy deezy damn trachea, she went down to the clinic to get a chest x-ray to check it out, to make sure it wasn't pneumonia. (as you can imagine, coughing with a spacer in your chest has got to feel something like hell)
the x-ray came back, and it looked like there was no pneumonia! on Saturday.
This morning, it was bad again. the clinic couldn't get her in until 2:40, and this was at noon. so we headed over to the Orem Community ER. Nurse Tom took good care of us (just like the last time we were there. seriously CHEERS to nurse Tom. I feel like dropping off a big ol' Texas Roadhouse gift card) and they gave her a breathing treatment and another chest x-ray, revealing that OHHHH she does have pneumonia now. since it wasn't there on Saturday, they had a good baseline to compare it to.
She is now down at UVRMC, being well taken care of by a doctor that she worked with at the M-gap, and she is receiving steady antibiotics and pain management.
As her doctor told me during a little pep-talk today on the phone, this is just a bump in the road.
mom can feel your thoughts and prayers, and she appreciates you all so much. we are grateful people.
thank you thank you thank you.
we'll keep you posted!
Jo - you can do this. Let those docs spoil you. Make them spend their free food card on you. You deserve it!
ReplyDeleteLooking back, that litte bump was the worst experience of my ever living life! ICU kidney failure with dialysis morphine headache, c-diff, so much PAIN I wanted to die. The hallucinations were the best😄
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