Rusted Sky

Mother is frail.

Well, that kind of understates things. "Frail" applies to Mother like "Damp" applies to the ocean - it doesn't quite give you an adequate idea of her condition. Since a bout of RSV-induced pneumonia about four, five years back, she's been in pretty bad shape and was on oxygen when they were back in New Mexico. At the lower altitude here, she hasn't needed a whiff of supplemental oxygen.

Until today.

She and Father caught a cold last week, and Saturday she was afraid that it was settling into pneumonia. Waiting until today, she got a doctor's appointment - and the doctor quickly got her to the ER so they could start a drip on her and run some antibiotics. Listening to her lungs and an x-ray convinced him she was in the beginning stages of bacterial pneumonia, but there was a good chance of stopping it before it got a solid hold on her system. So they decided to treat her with a combination of antibiotics, and keep her in the hospital overnight.

After the first bag (sorry, but I didn't jot down what it was) Mother said her throat stopped hurting. After the second bag, the nurse came in and listened to her lungs... and didn't hear anything unusual.

Now we wait. IF the pneumonia's knocked down/out, then she'll go home tomorrow. If not... well, I'd like to get her out of there if possible tomorrow. There's just too many sick people there, and I'm afraid she's going to catch something.

J.