Originally Posted by
Alysia
that is a very good question. I am not sure. at the beginning there were ups and downs according to the collapsed lung which was up and down. then about before chest tube number 6 he started to become more and more SOB. from that point there were better days but his shortness of breath became more and more severe and he needed more and more oxygen. the triger for the ICU was lung infection of Ecoli and yeast. I can't believe the nurses were so dirty not to wash hands and touch his nebuliser or oxygen without gloves but I cant see any other way that Ecoli entered to his lungs. then they couldnt tell if it is WG and/ or infection and/ or somthing else. in restrospect I now think that it was also the Fentanyl (opiod, narcotics, for pain) that made him more and more SOB. he became more and more SOB after procedures in which they encourage him "to use the pain button". I am raging about it. how I wish I knew it on time to save him. I think that evntually this is what killed him because the white blood count showed at that day normal numbers and wg was treated by pred rtx and Igiv and the lung was up.