So here is another bad day for you guys to read about. It seems like every time I turn around im reporting more scary news. As I reported a few days ago, moms in the hospital getting continuous feeding with the peg tube, anti biotics for the pneumonia and physical therapy to try and get her back on her feet. Well today while the nurses were setting up for the blood transfusion mom asked me to set her up so she could cough. Since they began the antibiotics she's been having mucus and junk. I'm assuming its the antibiotics doing there job and she's coughin up what is in her lungs from the pneumonia. Well she started coughing and the mucus got lodged in her airway. She couldn't get another breath to try and push it. Her blood ox dropped to 31 at its lowest point. Her entire body went limp. I learned I work quick under pressure. While the nurses are calling for rapid response I'm holding her up right and rubbing her to get her alert. I guess a daugters love does touch deep cause as the nurses were tryin to get her alert she wasn't responding. As soon as i spoke up and started telling her to cough and breath her blood ox started rising. They got her oxygen back up to 92 before they took her to ICU for tonight for observation. When I left the hospital she said her throat seemed a little clearer but still not good. Her vitals are back to normal, they are keeping a oxygen mask on her and with that she is at 100% oxygen level. Her oncologist came out and talked to us. I asked him y her blood count keeps dropping. she just had a blood transfustion on friday. He said with her chemo (Alimta), she shouldn't have the problem and his only guess with out test is that the cancer may have attacked her bone marrow because over a matter of days her red, white and plattlets all dropped which this is the first time white blood cell and plattlets dropped. Even with all this her oncologist doesnt give up all hope. he still at the end of our converstion says hopefully we can get her feeling better
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