Barbie
Extremely helpful member
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2007
- Messages
- 2,681
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 01/2007
- Country
- US
- State
- FL
- City
- orlando
My poor husband has had a very bad day today--
He has been having daily severe coughing fits in the evening for the last couple of weeks. tons of phlem and he is left feeling weak and spent but feels fine the next morning. the only thing he will take is benedryl because he is sure he is having an asthma attack or an allergy attack. This morning, he started coughing just before I left for work...it got bad fast and scared me. I called the hospice nurse, who came over quickly. she gave him atropine drops. by the time she got there he was on the mend from the worst of it, but his o2 was down to 84 and his heart rate was 120. I don't remember his BP. I hate tothink what his stats were during the peak--
I stayed home today, and he slept the entire day. I got him up a couple of hours ago, and he is sooo weak and can't urinate or eat--says he is too dried up. I can barely hear him talk.
I am scared, because this is so sudden and he hasn't bounced back like usual. lI think it will be a long nite.
He has been having daily severe coughing fits in the evening for the last couple of weeks. tons of phlem and he is left feeling weak and spent but feels fine the next morning. the only thing he will take is benedryl because he is sure he is having an asthma attack or an allergy attack. This morning, he started coughing just before I left for work...it got bad fast and scared me. I called the hospice nurse, who came over quickly. she gave him atropine drops. by the time she got there he was on the mend from the worst of it, but his o2 was down to 84 and his heart rate was 120. I don't remember his BP. I hate tothink what his stats were during the peak--
I stayed home today, and he slept the entire day. I got him up a couple of hours ago, and he is sooo weak and can't urinate or eat--says he is too dried up. I can barely hear him talk.
I am scared, because this is so sudden and he hasn't bounced back like usual. lI think it will be a long nite.