Setback

[Theland]

After being told I could go home, I have now been told my SATS have dipped and my blood pressure is dangerously low.
''Dangerously?''
That word came as a shocker.
The only thing I have ever known to be dangerously low is my bank account :-(
Back on oxygen and 89%.
What next?
A library fine for my Enid Blyton books?
The book of Job comes to mind :-(

[rowanwitch]

Theland, you must have known home oxygen would be the next step for you, and I know from my grandfather and others with copd it's one step forward and two steps back and you can only slow the progression and avoid the acute episodes as much as possible. I hope though they are not treating the numbers instead of how you are, I know that the sats for some COPD patients scare the sh## out of junior nurses when they should be looking at the patient. I have seen patients with their sats in the high eighties potter around the ward quite happily when maybe the asthmatic in the next bed is struggling at 93%, it's what people are used to.

[Sqad]

rowan...well written.

[rowanwitch]

Thank you Sqad, think nursing the patient not the figures was the best thing I learned in nursing.

[Theland]

I'm going from 88 to 90 with a half litre/hour oxygen and feel comfortable and fit to go home.

[Theland]

Tnanks Rowan. I just hope you didn't look loke your avatar :-)

[rowanwitch]

Then if they can get you a home supply you should be fine you might only need it intermittently, grandad used it when he got out of bed, so he felt okay to wash and dress, and maybe a couple of times a day after that, he never needed constant oxygen, some do, and with mini cylinders can get out and about so much easier.

[rowanwitch]

I am about as curvy

[allenlondon]

Mrs A’s BP is down in the danger zone. Her docs recommend a quiet life, and say symtoms are more significant than the numbers.

[ludwigvan]

Very true Allen, I’ve got asymptomatic bradycardia and always have had,when I tell the doctors that,the worried look falls from their faces. Maybe it’s because I’m so super fit (falls on floor laughing).

[Theland]

Some really great information for me.
Many thanks to all of you.

[anneasquith]

Lud, get up off the floor ( if you can ) :-)