Jennifer from Colorado
July 8th 03, 09:24 PM
On 8 Jul 2003 12:12:36 -0700, (Katie Jaques)
wrote:
>Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and wishes. I knew you
>would all want to know about Barbara's condition.
>
>When I left the hospital about 10:30 this morning she was still asleep
>under sedation, but they were just waiting for an order from the
>doctor to wake her up and remove the ventilator tubes. She had a
>reasonably restful night, but when the nurses came to change her
>position in the bed, take blood, etc. she roused easily and was
>responsive, and she knew I was there.
>
>It appears we are out of the woods, although we came terrifyingly
>close to losing her. In the emergency room early yesterday morning
>she was in complete pulmonary and cardiac arrest for about 5 minutes.
>Her own initiative in getting up and calling 911 probably saved her
>life. Had she not done that before rousing Michael, she might not
>have made it, or at best she might have had serious brain damage. As
>it is, everyone tells us she should have no permanent effects.
>
>Barbara has had asthma since she was 2-1/2 years old. Her father
>suffered from it all his life, and her sister's son, Parker, also has
>it. I have lived with asthmatics for more than 40 years and have seen
>some fairly rough times, but never anything like this. It was a huge
>shock to me. We made a few midnight runs to the emergency room in her
>childhood, but not after we got the home breathing machine so we could
>do the albuterol treatments ourselves. When she recovers from this
>episode I hope we can find a specialist who will put her on a
>maintenance protocol that will prevent future events. She has just
>been treating it symptomatically, and obviously that is not working
>now.
How scary! I have asthma too and it is very scary to have that happen.
I'm glad she's going to be alright and I really hope she can get on a
maintenance program. It has helped me a ton. If I was just treating
sympomatically, I'd probably be in the hospital several times a year.
As it is, I haven't been to the emergency room in years.
Jennifer from Colorado (99% lurker)
wrote:
>Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and wishes. I knew you
>would all want to know about Barbara's condition.
>
>When I left the hospital about 10:30 this morning she was still asleep
>under sedation, but they were just waiting for an order from the
>doctor to wake her up and remove the ventilator tubes. She had a
>reasonably restful night, but when the nurses came to change her
>position in the bed, take blood, etc. she roused easily and was
>responsive, and she knew I was there.
>
>It appears we are out of the woods, although we came terrifyingly
>close to losing her. In the emergency room early yesterday morning
>she was in complete pulmonary and cardiac arrest for about 5 minutes.
>Her own initiative in getting up and calling 911 probably saved her
>life. Had she not done that before rousing Michael, she might not
>have made it, or at best she might have had serious brain damage. As
>it is, everyone tells us she should have no permanent effects.
>
>Barbara has had asthma since she was 2-1/2 years old. Her father
>suffered from it all his life, and her sister's son, Parker, also has
>it. I have lived with asthmatics for more than 40 years and have seen
>some fairly rough times, but never anything like this. It was a huge
>shock to me. We made a few midnight runs to the emergency room in her
>childhood, but not after we got the home breathing machine so we could
>do the albuterol treatments ourselves. When she recovers from this
>episode I hope we can find a specialist who will put her on a
>maintenance protocol that will prevent future events. She has just
>been treating it symptomatically, and obviously that is not working
>now.
How scary! I have asthma too and it is very scary to have that happen.
I'm glad she's going to be alright and I really hope she can get on a
maintenance program. It has helped me a ton. If I was just treating
sympomatically, I'd probably be in the hospital several times a year.
As it is, I haven't been to the emergency room in years.
Jennifer from Colorado (99% lurker)