Background....

I just wanted to give some background for people that do not know what has been going on with my mom

On Friday the 23rd Mom went to the hospital because she had been having flu-like symptoms and trouble breathing...they gave her a prescription and sent her home. She returned to the hospital Saturday the 24th because she couldnt find one of her inhalers...she was admitted that evening...they wanted to keep her the night so they could monitor her. Mom was moved up to the ICU at 3am and they induced a coma shortly after. Tonight is her 12th night in the coma and on life support, and she has been up and down since...not really making too much progress. She has pneumonia in both lungs along with her severe asthma...she tested positive for influenza A - but they still dont have the results for h1n1 (they are 95% that she has it and are treating her accordingly) She spent her first week in Sarina in isolation...she started to show some improvement early Monday November 2nd...but in evening she took a turn for the worse and our family was called in because the doctor feared that she might not make it through the night...her xray showed a lot of fluid in her lungs...causing 1 to collapse. We stayed in the hospital until 6am and luckily she pulled through!
She was airlifted at 550pm on November 3rd to London and has been at University Hospital since then...She is now on a new ventilator (there are only 3 of them in Ontario!) that pushes 2 -300 breaths into her lungs per minute ( her ventilator in sarnia only gave her 40 breaths per minute) She is hanging in there but she is still in a coma and in isolation in the ICU
we are praying for her all the time and so are many of her friends and family!
we have to be patient as we were told that her recovery would be long and she needs a lot of time for her body to heal!
i hope this blog will be a sucessful tool in keeping everyone updated as my mom fights this illness!
thanks for all the love and support!
xoxo

kate