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Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:27 am
Hello everyone,
its been 2 years since I posted on here, and thought that I would give you an update on hubby's situation. He deteriated soon after my last post in 2012 and was quickly put on home oxygen therapy. He has been on that for 2 years now. The hot sweats still bother him a lot especially after eating. At the moment his bain is retaining fluids. His feet are swollen like balloons and his legs and thighs too. In the morning his face is very swollen. This is called edema I believe and he has been put on 2 different water tablets for the last 5 days with no changes. I have the dr. coming out to see him at home tomorrow. Hubby is now bedridden and never goes out. He needs me to wash and bath him and he eats very little. He had a pacemaker fitted last year and that has regulated his very slow heartbeat. I keep a diary every day and take his saturation and beats per min every morning. In the beginning when he first went on the oxygen is sats were in the 90's and BPM approx 110.......... in the last few months they have been in the 60 - 65's and 120 ish......... we have already been told he that he only has 6 mths and is at end stage copd............. I cope every day and what I do seems normal to me, my routine is the same every day with hubby at the top of the list. I cant seem to imagine life with out him, and I feel that 'it' will never happen. But hubby is getting weaker every day and more breathless and can hardly move now. I am on call for him 24 hours a day and that is 'normal' for me.
anyway, sorry to have gone on a bit ...... I am glad I at last managed to post a message once again on here.
its been 2 years since I posted on here, and thought that I would give you an update on hubby's situation. He deteriated soon after my last post in 2012 and was quickly put on home oxygen therapy. He has been on that for 2 years now. The hot sweats still bother him a lot especially after eating. At the moment his bain is retaining fluids. His feet are swollen like balloons and his legs and thighs too. In the morning his face is very swollen. This is called edema I believe and he has been put on 2 different water tablets for the last 5 days with no changes. I have the dr. coming out to see him at home tomorrow. Hubby is now bedridden and never goes out. He needs me to wash and bath him and he eats very little. He had a pacemaker fitted last year and that has regulated his very slow heartbeat. I keep a diary every day and take his saturation and beats per min every morning. In the beginning when he first went on the oxygen is sats were in the 90's and BPM approx 110.......... in the last few months they have been in the 60 - 65's and 120 ish......... we have already been told he that he only has 6 mths and is at end stage copd............. I cope every day and what I do seems normal to me, my routine is the same every day with hubby at the top of the list. I cant seem to imagine life with out him, and I feel that 'it' will never happen. But hubby is getting weaker every day and more breathless and can hardly move now. I am on call for him 24 hours a day and that is 'normal' for me.
anyway, sorry to have gone on a bit ...... I am glad I at last managed to post a message once again on here.
