Mom called me this morning after leaving the hospital. Gpa is stable, but not doing well. Mom said that they started giving him morphine early this morning to try and help him breathe. I guess his lungs are so full he's struggling to breathe (?). The morphine is supposed to help relax him so that he can breathe easier.
Tomorrow they are going to do a scope and look around in his lungs. Mom said they'll look at the spot on his lung that they found the other day and maybe also take a sample so they see what kind of pneumonia they are dealing with.
She did say that his white count didn't drop anymore, so that's good. It didn't improve anymore either, which is what the blood doctor had wanted to see happen.
I guess we wait until tomorrow and see what they find after doing the scope.
I feel kind of guilty for not being there. I've asked myself a couple of times this week if we did the right thing by coming back down here. I guess I just feel helpless and I don't like that feeling. I wish I could help my Dad and my Gma out more, yet at the same time, I'm not real sure what I could do. That all being said, I know my Gpa wouldn't want me to "fuss" over him and he'd tell me to stay here. It's just hard to know what the right thing to do is.
In the meantime, I'll stay here and wait for more updates, I guess.
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