Wednesday, January 11, 2023

ER visit

Jennefer’s had a nagging cough, ever since she accidentally inhaled some juice last week - one of the undesired side effects of the radiation treatments to her throat, is trouble swallowing - and lately it’s been sounding kinda wet, and we’re hoping it didn’t turn into aspiration pneumonia. Urgent Care’s X-Ray tech was out today, so here we are at the Littleton ER, to find out what’s going on in her lungs... 🏥

Here are my updates from the visit: 

* The initial check-in went ok - no unexpectedly weird vitals 👍

* The PA says her lungs sound ok 🤞

* He’s finally ordered an X-Ray of her lungs, and they sent us out into the lobby to wait 🥱

* I guess the PA got the X-Ray back, as they’ve pulled her back from the lobby, into a private room 😳

* And... it’s good news - the PA says he didn’t see anything bad in the X-Ray, so… he’s sending her home, and I guess we just hope it will resolve itself, over time. It does seem like her body takes longer to heal from things, since the radiation and chemo treatments. So… Woo hoo? And we’re off to home! (And we shaved 30 minutes off the usual 3-hour minimum ER visit!) 😅

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