ShadowcatX
June 15th, 2005, 04:14 AM
My dad is in the hospital in critical condition. He had cancer and has went through radiation and chemotherapy which the doctors believed would destroy his cancer (which was located in the lymphnodes beside his windpipe). He had his last treatment a week ago on monday. Well today (today is tuesday for me I haven't been to sleep yet) I stayed home from work to be with him and he was having a bit of a hard time breathing, which wasn't in and of itself unusual and the cancer doctor he saw said not to be concerned overly about it. But today was worse than it had been and so after my mom got off work we decided to take him to the emergency room, so my mom took him and I stayed here.
Well by the time she got there he wasn't doing good at all, his oxygen saturation, which should be in the upper nineties to 100% was around the 30% mark. They did a broncoscopy (sp?) and he has mucas the consistancy of rubber in his right lung and an infection. The mucas (sp?) is that way because of him being dehydrated and it was blocking off his right lung and causing it not to recieve any air what so ever. The doctor said it was the worst he'd ever seen. They got part of that out but some of it is just too together to come up through the bronchial tubes and so he doesn't know how they're going to get the rest of it out. He said it's too together for medicine to really effect it so he has absolutely no clue how they're going to get the rest of it out. However, what he's done has helped alot, and combined with putting my dad on a resperator has raised his oxygen saturation in his blood back into the nineties, and he's using his right lung again.
That's the easy stuff.
The infection, however, is not good. They're giving him antibiotic shots and stuff, but the doctor said that among chemo patients who get an infection the rate of fatality might be as high as fifty percent, and that my dad is very very sick.
So I'm asking you all for your positive energies, well wishes, prayers, or whatever. Thank you all and Blessed Be.
Well by the time she got there he wasn't doing good at all, his oxygen saturation, which should be in the upper nineties to 100% was around the 30% mark. They did a broncoscopy (sp?) and he has mucas the consistancy of rubber in his right lung and an infection. The mucas (sp?) is that way because of him being dehydrated and it was blocking off his right lung and causing it not to recieve any air what so ever. The doctor said it was the worst he'd ever seen. They got part of that out but some of it is just too together to come up through the bronchial tubes and so he doesn't know how they're going to get the rest of it out. He said it's too together for medicine to really effect it so he has absolutely no clue how they're going to get the rest of it out. However, what he's done has helped alot, and combined with putting my dad on a resperator has raised his oxygen saturation in his blood back into the nineties, and he's using his right lung again.
That's the easy stuff.
The infection, however, is not good. They're giving him antibiotic shots and stuff, but the doctor said that among chemo patients who get an infection the rate of fatality might be as high as fifty percent, and that my dad is very very sick.
So I'm asking you all for your positive energies, well wishes, prayers, or whatever. Thank you all and Blessed Be.