“I was never watching what I ate, never really paying attention to what what happening inside my body” my Grandma said. She would go to the Doctor every year and they said that she was healthy and good. She started to feel like she wasn’t 100% and that she couldn’t do as much as she used to. But she decided that it was ok and it was nothing to worry about. She just thought maybe she was getting sick or getting Pneumonia.
“It started to seem as if I was losing more and more energy everyday, but I kept pushing that problem aside” She said. She decided to just ignore the fact of how she felt and blame it on that fact that she was “old” or getting sick. Me, my Mother, and my Grandpa started to get very worried about her health, but she kept saying …show more content…
Once they were back in the the emergency room the Nurse realized she was having problems breathing and put her on Oxygen. The Doctor came in and decided to do a CT scan and found out she had Blood clots in both lungs and her right leg. After the scan the Doctors told her she was very lucky to be alive.
The Doctors decided they needed to admit her for surgery the following morning. She got her into her room and was set for the night. She was feeling perfectly fine but all of a sudden when she got up she had a horrible pain in her chest, and that’s when her heart had stopped. My Grandpa had been in the room when this happened and called for the Nurses and Doctors. The Doctors said that she need to have surgery immediately, and not for the next day.
We found out that the blood clots stopped the blood flow to her heart. The nurses had to do CPR and her heart started beating again after about 20 secs. They had rushed her immediately to do surgery. During the surgery they ran tubes into her lungs to break up the blood clots, and had to stay on those until the following morning. The next morning the Nurses and Doctors said that they were good to take the tubes out of her lungs. The rest of the day she stayed in ICU until she was set to
“It started to seem as if I was losing more and more energy everyday, but I kept pushing that problem aside” She said. She decided to just ignore the fact of how she felt and blame it on that fact that she was “old” or getting sick. Me, my Mother, and my Grandpa started to get very worried about her health, but she kept saying …show more content…
Once they were back in the the emergency room the Nurse realized she was having problems breathing and put her on Oxygen. The Doctor came in and decided to do a CT scan and found out she had Blood clots in both lungs and her right leg. After the scan the Doctors told her she was very lucky to be alive.
The Doctors decided they needed to admit her for surgery the following morning. She got her into her room and was set for the night. She was feeling perfectly fine but all of a sudden when she got up she had a horrible pain in her chest, and that’s when her heart had stopped. My Grandpa had been in the room when this happened and called for the Nurses and Doctors. The Doctors said that she need to have surgery immediately, and not for the next day.
We found out that the blood clots stopped the blood flow to her heart. The nurses had to do CPR and her heart started beating again after about 20 secs. They had rushed her immediately to do surgery. During the surgery they ran tubes into her lungs to break up the blood clots, and had to stay on those until the following morning. The next morning the Nurses and Doctors said that they were good to take the tubes out of her lungs. The rest of the day she stayed in ICU until she was set to