Well...last night was needless to say...chaotic. At first it was slow. But then multiple times I had an inclination to go to a residents room and there I found her hands and knees crawling to the bathroom. I tried to explain multiple times but to no avail apparently about the danger of doing that since it could have been 45 minutes until I did an official check on her. She was not happy with me, especially our second time around dealing with it. Then we had a resident who one minute was fine, complaining just of coughing and then all of the sudden I'm dealing with almost a respiratory emergency on my hands. She couldnt get good air, she was using a lot of energy and muscle to try to breathe, she was in a cold sweat, in pain, low oxygen stats and unable to communicate because of so much congestion and fluid in her lungs. The scary thing is that it all happened within a small amount of time...just half an hour from the time I gave the first dose of meds to see if it calmed her down to a state of emergency and having to call the Nurse and family in for fear that she wouldnt make it past today. Plus some smell or something in her room made my lungs from my chemical bronchitis burn, it felt like agony almost to be in there sometimes to help her and I had to quickly find and use my inhaler to calm my bronchials down a bit... so much adrenaline rush from all of that...
Last night was hard. Even before all that happened....friendships are hard...harsh words between friends are hard. I just need some stable, normal friends
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