Pneumonia Care, Oxygen Requirements and Discharge (Part 4)
After spending almost 48 hours in the private ward, the following morning, we turned the oxygen down to 2L which I felt very comfortable with and my saturations remained 94% the majority of the day. In the evening, I asked to reduce it to 1L overnight but because they were still borderline, they were reluctant, understandably. It ended up getting turned down to 1L in the morning and then when the consultant came round for ward round, she turned it off completely. It had only been 3 hours and I had already started to struggle with my breathing again but she didn't seem to care.
She came back into the room less than 30 minutes later, checked by saturations and they were 94% so basically said I was fit to go home which did not feel good. Especially, given what had happened last time. I knew it would still be a little while before I could go home as I had to ait for medications and things, but I also said my mum had just gone back to Leeds as yesterday the doctor had said it would be Friday. She said that's fine and I was fine to be home alone, which I was pretty shocked at to be honest.
As the day went on, they kept doing my observations regularly and my saturations were pretty much consistently 92 - 93% the entire day. As it got towards tea time, they said I would need to stay in which was expected, but I was a little unsure why they hadn't restarted the oxygen. They made out it would need to be consistently 91% or lower again, which is strange to me but nevertheless.
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