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Carol Perkins: The Oxygen Line Previous Column: Party Crashers By Carol Perkins I took my mother for an echocardiogram last week at TJ. Only recently has she needed oxygen day and night. She had never used her portable oxygen outside the house so I wasn't sure how to turn it on, but she knew. Or thought she did. We sat in the driveway, waiting for it to kick in after turning a lever, only to discover it wasn't turned on. I drove to the Pavilion, got a wheelchair, helped her in it, and placed her tank on the side equipped for oxygen. She waited inside while I parked the car. While wheeling her, I kept running over her oxygen line. I also noticed when I started toward the elevator that one of the wheels was sitting on the line. Not a good thing. Once she was called back to the exam room, I asked the nurse to check the tank to see if she had much oxygen because my mother used it recently during a storm. I didn't know a thing about the tank, including where to look. "It is very low," she said and showed me the readings. My mother didn't hear what she said. The nurse hooked Mom up to the oxygen in the room to save what was in the tank. The echo was good enough for her to go home, so I wheeled her down the hall, running over that line again. The last thing she needed was a kink in the line. Once I wheeled her to the waiting car and helped her out of the chair, I noticed, once again, that a wheel sat on top of the line. I must have been determined to cut off her oxygen! I never mentioned this and prayed we would get home before the tank fell into the red zone and she lost her breath. I am not a good caregiver. Thank goodness she keeps up with her medicines, records her daily blood pressure and oxygen levels, and calls the drugstore for refills. I am good, however, at making appointments, driving to the doctor, and hearing what the doctor says. She has good years ahead of her if I don't cut off her oxygen. You can contact Carol at carolperkins06@gmail.com. This story was posted on 2023-08-31 09:35:12
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