Hello guys,
On march 19 my father was admitted to the hospital for what we believed was gastritis pain he was throwing up at home and very tired. The hospital diagnosed him with pneumonia but on march 21 he was diagnosed with Covid19 he was rushed into the ICU for intubation. The doctors said they never seen someone’s lungs change that fast within 4 hours. My father is also 61 years old, immunosuppressant, a kidney transplant patient, had very slight heart failure. He was then intubated for 5 days then taken off. He remained in the icu for about 5 more days until he was admitted to the main floor. During his stay on the main floor he was doing fine but very very weak. His kidney was not majorly impacted throughout his covid experience. However, his creatinine level went up and they gave him IV fluids for it to go down. Next day, the IV fluid becomes received was so much it went to his lungs causing him to have shortness of breath so he was admitted to the ICU again but only for a day. He was then discharged from the on April 21. A whole month later.
After a week from being home and quarantining in his bedroom he started feeling very sharp abdominal pain and back pain. We admitted him into the hospital again and they diagnosed him with bacterial pneumonia from his stay at the hospital from covid. They admitted him into the ICU again with intubation because he was having trouble breathing. He was intubated for about 2 days then returned to the main floor on was discharged shortly. He stayed for a total of 2 weeks.
After about 3-4 weeks of being home and him regaining himself again. He started having the same pains in his abdomen and back again so he wanted to go to the hospital again to make sure it wasn’t his lungs. They admitted him to the hospital this time because only of his creatinine level being at 1.7 so they wanted to give him IV Fluids they even said his lungs got better. He stayed for a day then got discharged and came home but at home he didn’t look like himself he was very tired and could barely breath at night he was saturating at 88-90% so we admitted him again that same night ASSUMING the IV fluids the hospital gave him went to his lungs. They were giving lasix and stuff for him to pee the fluids out but he wasn’t peeing enough even with the high dosage so they admitted him into the ICU.
The ICU staff was trying their hardest to not intubate him again because this would be his 3rd time in a 3
month span of him being intubated and they were scared at this point it won’t come out instead he could be on it for life or end up getting a tracheotomy. They gave him a nasal canal first then the bipap machine up until the highest oxgyen but he had to get intubated the risks were since his heart weakened he might go into cardiac arrest but the operation went smooth. HOWEVER, the hospital extuabted him 2 days later only to intubate him again because he couldn’t handle it he was very dependent on the ventilator. Now he is on 30% on the ventilators at first he was at 100% but they called us in for a family meeting saying their very concerned because his Heart has gotten worse. His ejection rate is 25% normal is 55% -75%. And he is experiencing renal failure but he is still urinating so they are holding off dialysis. They believe that he won’t ever get off the ventilator because his lungs are so scarred so they want to do the tracheostomy but we should know he probably won’t ever get off and most likely be sent to a long term facility were we can’t see him if he survives this. But his heart is failing and they really don’t have any hope that it won’t get any better. 😢 They let us say our goodbyes to him yesterday even if he gets better or not since theirs no visitations. I don’t know how to feel because doctors give so bad news i’m scared if he won’t make it
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