He's 85 and he fell 3 or 4 days ago(sorry, I haven't had much sleep since so my time is a little screwed up). He didn't hit his head or break anything, just skinned his knees and bruised his elbow, but it really shook him up. I brought him home with me and have been watching over him the whole time. At first he was eating and drinking fine., and his oxygen was good. Then he started going down hill. He ate less and less and couldn't drink water without coughing and spitting it back up, and he has extreme diarreah . His oxygen went down to 89 and his pulse went up to 122. Got extremely weak. I had to call the ambulance though I was afraid to. Of course the doc says he has COVID which is BULLSHIT!
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. My 93 yo mom went in to the ER with shortness of breath and a high heart rate a couple weeks ago. EKG showed afib. After treating her for 6 hrs with a beta blocker and fluids she developed fluid on the lungs... because they overloaded her with fluids. Once transferred to ICU they tried to tell me it was covid not afib. What kind of idiot thinks the very first signs of covid are shortness of breath and fluid on the lungs (which of course they caused... a cardiologist later admitted it). Thank goodness she tested negative because had she tested positive those symptoms still would have not been related but they would have assumed they were. Probably would have put her on a vent and killed her. I was LIVID. I made zero friends that week.
Made me wonder how many people died because they were misdiagnosed and therefore mistreated.
My best to your dad. And to you
Wow, glad your Mom is ok! I think a lot of people die in hospital due to incompetence. My Mom broke her hip in the hospital because they wouldn't help her to the bathroom and she didn't want to pee the bed (she had gotten beatings for peeing the bed as a child. found out when she was in her 30's it was due to the fact that she only had one kidney and didn't know it). They wouldn't operate for over a year because she was a heavy smoker and wouldn't quit. My spouse's mom died because she had a bed sore and the docs and nurses didn't take care of it. The infection went into her tail bone and spine.