Thursday

6am night shift ER doctor update: She’s not going home. That was it, no marked improvement in her breathing. In fact, she seemed worse. I reiterated that we still wanted the chest x-rays we’d asked for, even though it was expected to only show what we’d been consistently told. And then, we got a call at lunchtime from the daytime shift ER doctor: She’s breathing on her own! Better than she had been (on oxygen) several hours earlier, and it was time to talk about Lummi’s discharge to go home! And then our oncologist saw the x-rays and said there was an 80% improvement since the ones they took on Tuesday! We visited Lummi in the afternoon (HAPPILY!) and decided to keep her in the ER one more night to taper down off oxygen and practice breathing on her own while supervised.