Well here is an update on my mother... Seems that this support thing has really overtaken my life these days, busy as hell with appointments. More in fact than ever before, it's a full time job being a support person for a lung transplant patient and I'll now be searching for some supplemental income since it leaves very little room for me to work during the day anymore...
Dorothy's been having some noticeable trouble bringing her oxygen saturation back up to the 90's during exercise and when she's just walking along. So the obvious solution would be turn up her oxygen right? Well no, this doesn't work very well because you end up with a problem where by the CO2 does not exit the body well, you get pockets of CO2 in your lungs that don't exhale with your breath so inhaling is not effective because the pockets in your lungs are already full of stale air. Luckily she has a BiPap machine that she can rely on which gets this stale air out of her system. Anyhow, to make a long boring story short and to the point. At clinic today they decided that she will need to be on an extremely high dose of antibiotics 750Mg twice per day in fact for 10 days. They believe that after her last hospital stay there is a bacterial growth that just won't leave her lungs so they are going to obliterate it with toxic doses... :)
Asside from that we are finding the new support group that we are attending to be quite helpful and a source of knowledge. And to top it off someone from the group (Sue) had her surgery today and last word from a friend of hers was that she's doing quite well so we have our fingers crossed... Sue was one of the ones in group who really struggled like my mom so this will be a great relief for her and we are looking forward to seeing her in post therapy...
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