Update on my mother: As I suspected, she has pneumonia

[LeftyMom]

She's on better antibiotics. Supposedly she should feel better in a day or two.

I'm going by in a bit to take care of her cats and check up on her. Apparently her husband went to the grocery store yesterday, which is something I guess.

[LeftyMom]

1. She's doing better.

Not great, but better. She got out of bed a bit. She still looks and sounds awful, but I think the antibiotics are helping.

Her husband was home when I went over there. Why on earth he can't clean the cat box, wash a dish or two, or take my mother something to drink, I do not know. He sat on the couch the whole time, though he did make a production of telling me he'd just got home from work and was tired.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear LeftyMom...

She's lucky to have you nearby...

That worthless husband of hers is a poor excuse for a husband.

Glad she's doing better!

:hi:

[murielm99]

3. I am so lucky.

My husband has been doing everything around here. It may not be the way I would do it, but he has been great.

I was sick for a week before we discovered I had e. coli poisoning. The house was a mess. My kids came home and cooked, vacuumed, cleaned bathrooms, did laundry. He pitched right in.

I am still too tired to do much. He has been cooking, going to the store, and taking care of the pets and me without much help. Now he is getting a cold. I will take good care of him, too.

It is great that you are there for your mother. We are supposed to be here for each other.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Good vibes to your mom, sweetie. And, you, too.

:hug:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. A bit of free advice about pneumonia.

I am assuming your mom has bacterial pneumonia, which is why she is receiving antibiotics.

About 20 years ago I had bacterial pneumonia because my immune system had cratered from stress.

When you take antibiotics, the gunk in your lungs is supposed to get better, and you cough it up and expel it.

However, the gunk in my lungs did not come up. I coughed occasionally but the crud solidified.

I had to have a bronchoscopy four times in five years.

That is where they put you under general anesthesia, roll you into the OR, and run a tube down your throat and suction out the gunk in the largest bronchi, and rinse it out with saline.

If I had not had this done I would have drowned in my own pus (sorry to be so gross) and died.

So if the gunk doesn't break up and she doesn't get better, this is what they can do.

It's absolutely painless, since I was under general anesthesia. I remember that my ribs were sore afterwards because I was breathing deeply for the first time in months and my ribs were not used to it.

:hi:

Hope your mom gets much better quickly.