Scary Evening

They sent Sandi home with just one small bottle of oxygen today. Somebody at the hospital was supposed to do something, somebody else was supposed to do something,  and yada, yada, yada nothing got done. The bottom line was that nobody ever delivered the home setup stuff for Sandi today like was supposed to happen. After the procedure she had this morning she is having a very hard time breathing tonight. It has gotten a little worse each hour as they said it might and by 8:30 she started having major coughing fits. So, we had to make an emergency call around nine tonight to get some oxygen delivered.

The folks responsible for the oxygen supplies responded very quickly and she now has the equipment.

This thing above is the oxygen concentrator machine. Plugs into the wall sockets and processes the normal air in some way to give her continuous high level oxygen.

These are some of the portable tanks she will use in a carrier for doctor visits, power failures,etc.

And this is the patient herself breathing and feeling a little bit better about a half an hour after the tech left.

A little while after this picture was taken by Karl (he took the others as well by cellphone) we got her moved upstairs and into the bed. I have no idea how heavy the machine is, but I can't move it up and down the stairs. Fortunately, the boys can so that won't be the problem it would be if the two of us lived alone.

She is now in bed and things seem to be a bit better. At this point, I don't think we are going to have to get her back to the hospital tonight like I really thought we were just a little while ago. This was very scary tonight, but I think the worst is past.