by Turbojett » Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:45 am
So my mom had to go back into the hospital again. Apparently, her diet wasn't quite enough because the same damn thing was wrong.
She had been sick with a cough for a few days and was having trouble breathing, so they thought she'd gotten pneumonia, but when they took her to the ER, the doctor didn't hear ANY air getting into her right lung.
So then, they were thinking her lung had collapsed--I was told that this does happen spontaneously in people who are having health problems, especially if they are coughing a lot.
When they took her in for an X-ray, they saw that her right lung was completely whited-out, so then they thought that her lung was full of fluid.
Then they did an MRI and found out that the lung wasn't full of fluid, the area around the lung was and it had collapsed her lung and was currently crushing it, and they ended up draining almost 2L of fluid from around her lung. They found that the fluid had come from her liver and had passed through the diaphragm and abscessed.
She's doing much better now, she was completely stable the whole time, but now they're talking liver transplant, which means she needs to get on a waiting list. Dad's arguing with the insurance company because they don't want to cover it (quelle-fucking-surprise).
Keep on Trollin'