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Oct 10, 2008, 10:44 PM

Thanks buds,

Another long day at the hospital. At least this time they let her go home. She is back on steroids and they took her off the blood pressure medication. She's lost 22 lbs and the dose was too high for her weight. It was lowering her blood pressure much too low, so everytime she stood up she was getting dizzy.

I'm looking to see if I can find her the lightest possible portable oxygen for when we go out because even though she has the small canister that goes over her shoulder, it's too heavy for her so I was carrying it around. She's so tiny that the weight of it makes her labor, and she ends up gasping for breath even on the oxygen.

She won't use the kind that's on wheels because it's not "fashionable" enough.

So I told her I'd look. I'll put a call in to the place tomorrow after I pick up her meds.

The Dr asked her how she felt and my mother said "like horseshit."