It's been a really long night. Last night, mom's oxygen saturation was really low, all the way down in the 50's. Like, 52, I think. Not good at all. they immediately started her on 5 liters of oxygen, and her sat stabilized to around 90. But, about 3:30 this morning we got a call from one of the nurses at Mt. Ogden, mom's blood pressure was really low and her oxygen had lowered again. She was transfered by non emergency transport to McKay Dee hospital ER. There, they started running tests, and determined that she has an infection. Since her vital signs were still low, they decided to admit her into the ICU to stablize her and battle the infection. She's stabilzed now, her blood pressure is returning to normal, and her oxygen sat is around 97 on 4 litres of oxygen. It'll be a little while before she feels better, but she's looking good considering. She has some of the coloring back in her face and she smiled when she saw her ducky.
We still haven't seen a doctor, nobody has really explained too much to us. She has an IV in each arm, and a central line in her neck. so it's not very easy for her to move. She is on four different IV medications, all of them have their purpose, I just don't know what most of them are for. She'll probably be in ICU for a couple of days, I'll try to keep you updated.
Sorry, I know this post is sounding a little incoherent, I'm not running on very much sleep. :)
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