starente15
Senior member
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2014
- Messages
- 809
- Reason
- Lost a loved one
- Diagnosis
- 10/2017
- Country
- US
- State
- NJ
- City
- Northern
Hello everyone. At the last support group I attended, I spoke to someone with respiratory onset about what would happen if a person who's diaphragm is affected were to fall. Their wife gave me a checklist of 1) roll them onto their side, 2) get a pillow behind their back and head and 3) get the trilogy on asap.
I heard from my brother today that my father tripped while out on an errand and if he hadn't been there, he would have fallen face forward. He only uses a cane and it seems it's time to start taking the walker out. I am a nervous wreck thinking about how this could have gone down especially because he and my mother go out by themselves and my mother would never have the strength to support him the way my brother did.
I guess the question I don't want to ask is, with your respiratory system compromised, what will really happen? Inability to breathe at all? Cardiac arrest?
Thanks as always for any insight you can give.
I heard from my brother today that my father tripped while out on an errand and if he hadn't been there, he would have fallen face forward. He only uses a cane and it seems it's time to start taking the walker out. I am a nervous wreck thinking about how this could have gone down especially because he and my mother go out by themselves and my mother would never have the strength to support him the way my brother did.
I guess the question I don't want to ask is, with your respiratory system compromised, what will really happen? Inability to breathe at all? Cardiac arrest?
Thanks as always for any insight you can give.