Hey guys. This is me ranting a lil bit because the other person I can do that with (my sister) is asleep and we already talked about it but i'm not done still.
Right now, my mom is in the ICU because of a urine infection. I rushed her to the ER last night because yesterday she spent the day asleep, feverish, with no appetite, and completely out of it. She fell asleep in the middle of the sentences she tried to say, waking up again 10 or so seconds later to continue talking. It was very hard for me and her nurse to keep her awake. Her eyes were glassy, and her blood pressure was really, really low. Now, that last one was very alarming (as if the others weren't) because my mom is hypertensive, no hypotensive.
So. The thing is. We knew she had a urine infection. BUT! Because of all the Covid-19 thingy (heh), her Neurosurgeon, her Urologist and her Gen doctor said that it was best to wait at home, do some exams, find the bacteria and deal with it with antibiotics. And we followed that for about a month and a half. A MONTH AND A HALF. She's had this infection pretty much since her surgery, festering inside her and creating colonies. And I mean. I KNOW that they were thinking about her health, you know? I know that, my sister knows that and my MOM knows that. But this bacteria? She is nothing to play around with and she's resistant to the antibiotics her doctor was telling her to take. S u r p r i s e!
This bacteria, Klebsiella Pneumoniae, can only be treated at a hospital because is just THAT aggressive, and it was making my mom's blood pressure to be very unstable. Last night, they gave her 3 bags of Sodium Chloride and her blood pressure was still not going up, as well as throwing in there some medicine to raise it, but nothing was working. Her doctor decided to send her to the ICU so she could be thoroughly monitored until her blood pressure was up again.
Yesterday, my mom was this close to a sceptic shock. Today, she was awake and alert, but now her blood pressure is too high. Her doctor told me that they had to put a catheter on her jugular to know how to handle this because if her blood pressure continued to go down, her organs could start failing and her body could shut down.
My mom has gone through 9 surgeries, the last one took a tumor out of her spine, she's still in the recovery process part, she's undergoing physical therapy to walk again. She's got out of the OR after 12 hours of surgery on her spine, I'm not letting a urine infection take her away. I have no idea what i'm gonna do, but that's where I stand on.
TL;DR: my mom has an agressive urine infection and we didn't go to the hospital because her doctors told us not to. Now she's in the ICU and her body could shut down if they're not able to stabilize her blood pressure.
