Wednesday PM - getting to be too much

This afternoon mother has gone through a lot. She is now on 150% oxygen. That is, she is using a mask of 100% oxygen in addition to the 50% nose feed. The reason is that xrays reveal both lungs have water. So she has pneumonia. She has an additional doctor, a pulmonary specialist, Dr Charbeneau. As of late night, mother had stabilized. This new situation will probably be the straw to break the camel's back.

Other news is that the skin doctor is trying to get her to a point where she has only one skin treatment per day. She will not have a dialysis tomorrow. She will likely be given lasix to pull some water. The question is whether the kidneys are capable of producing that water as urine. The nurse last night told me she believes the kidneys have now failed and will not respond to the lasix. Today's dialysis pulled 1.2 liters of water from her system.

Jeff came in from Houston and Kelly returned from a business trip, so we all hunkered down in the evening to be with her until about 11PM. She was resting and interacting with us but not much. You can tell she feels bad. Hope for a recovery is fading.