american_amadan
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I think her lungs were so inflamed at that point they had no other option. She waited till the last minute to go to the urgent care of all things, not even the hospital. The doctor even asked me why wasn't she here days ago. She grew up poor and like my mother married a well to do man but never learned the lifestyle of it. It took my mother forever to go to a doctor for a routine checkup. Growing up if they ever went to a doctor it was for bad news.Ventilators are almost a death sentence for people of a certain age/weight and more often than not older adults don’t get off them alive. Even younger healthier people have to do speech language therapy because their vocal cords are fried after lengthy intubation.
doctors know this; a doctor friend told me this. It makes it all the more nefarious when they could be trying alternatives first.
But thankfully my mom understood the importance of this and her overall health some time ago. The rest of her family...not so much. I really hope it was a wakeup call for them. Even if it's just for general, everyday bad health practices.