I picked up an extra shift tonight on second shift, as I was leaving the hospital my phone beeps. I have a voice mail from Mom. She came home from the grocery store and found my Dad unresponsive on the floor. Called 911. When he got to the E.R. his O2Sats were at 80%, which is LOW. He had been complaining about being short of breath before I went on vacation. He said he did not have any chest pain, he just couldn’t breathe. With his recent heart attack, his doctor’s were so focused on cardiac, nobody thought respiratory. Nobody did a simple chest xray. He has pneumonia. Basically his body was so oxygen deprived he lost consciousness. He’ll be 75 on the 29th.
