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This below is a from a lady who is a nurse and has a treatable pre-existing lung problem, probably younger than the Gnus' nurse wife. This was sent to a friend of mine just now, tonight. I removed any identifying info. Well.. you may see something here, under a medical system not actually even that crushed, she would have probably died. Had she not been a nurse she might have gone home and not to another ER.
But hey, Jem's plan to let it run kind of wild, not very wild, just the right amount that magically will happen IN HIS HEAD... He can't grasp the scale of it but there would not have been another ER to go to.
"I was diagnosed on Saturday, the 17th, and had no symptoms besides a weird taste, but my husband at the cough. Called my pulmonologist first thing that Monday and got steroids, and neublizer treatment. I was fine and battling it at home, I mean was miserable, but I was making it. Until the following Thursday, the 22nd. Went to the ER, was diagnosed with bilateral lobe pneumonia, got antibiotics and sent me home. My cough was there. But not awful. The next day, I was worse and coughing up blood. Went to another Er where my pulmonologist was, pneumonia still. Stronger antibiotics and cough syrup, sent home.
Sunday the 25th, was an entirely different level of problems. O2 was dropping just by me walking 10 feet to the restroom, 83%. Struggling to breathe. Not thinking straight. My husband and sister realized something was wrong, especially when I told them about my oxygen levels (I’m a nurse) and I literally laid down and just tried to go to sleep. They made me get up and go to the Er. Back to where pulmonologist is, oxygen sitting at 88% with no o2 on there. They literally told me I was fine and my chest X-ray was great (they never even performed a chest X-ray at that point) finally they did one and said I was fine. Go home. This is normal. Oxygen dropped again to 83% when they moved me out of the bed. They still sent me home and told me no beds were even available.
I told my husband I had an awful feeling and to drive me to another Er. We drove 15-20 mins to another. Where we found out I collapsed lobes, thought I had sepsis I was so sick, and they admitted me and immediately started me on o2. I got progressively worse on Tuesday to the point of I heard them saying If I got any worse, I’d be sent to icu and possibly put on a vent. They kept having to up my oxygen and changing out masks. They would roll me in the bed. And my o2 would drop just by rolling. That day, was a huge blur. I wasn’t making sense to talk to anyone. Everything got better after getting plasma and rounds of the antivirals. I was discharged from the hospital the 30th and had been doing well. But sent home with oxygen as I still struggle to breathe especially with activity.
This past Friday night, I was hurting worse and coughing and was afraid my pneumonia was back.. turns out, part of my lungs still have a partial collapse, and I’ve already started to develop scarring. After fighting all last week to see my pulmonologist, they finally agreed to see me tomorrow after a chest X-ray. I’m so frustrated with the way his hospital did, I’m unsure at this point if I should keep him or what I should do..
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Not sure what to do or where to turn and A NURSE.
