Spent the past 6 hours in the ER….
Posted by Cindy on 4/1/2024, 10:25 pm
With my brother Dick. I called him at 9 this morning and he wasn’t making sense on the phone. He kept telling me it was afternoon and I honestly thought he had had a stroke. I work 2 blocks from his apartment so I ran over to check on him. He was very confused but didn’t have a crooked smile so I didn’t think he had had a stroke. I called the home health nurse that comes out to see him and she came over. She took his vitals and called his dr who wanted to see him. I took him to the dr and a chest xray confirmed he had pneumonia. They sent us to the ER where they gave him 2 bags of saline solution and 2 different IV antibiotics and sent him home. He had gotten up around 4 this morning and took off his C-Pap machine and went into his living room to watch tv and didn’t put his oxygen on and fell asleep for 5 hours. The dr thinks that’s why he was so confused. They had his oxygen back up in the 90’s before we left the ER. It was in the 80’s when the home health nurse was over! Not the way either one of us wanted to spend our Monday-but I was glad that I was able to help him. Please say a prayer if you would!
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