One a day, plus iron

So DLB (my ongoing dressage clinician of eight years whose compassionate and thoughtful guidance has led us to... the depths of dressage skill that we currently exhibit) is in the hospital with serious pneumonia and she's been intubated. This ain't great. She's, I guess, some form of immuno-fucked-up because of Lyme Disease, so any time she gets sick it's worse than for the average person. So yeah, definitely not great and she's been in hospital for four weeks and she's gotta be over sixty years old. None of that bodes well.

Look. Intubation is a definitely not great thing for someone with a respiratory illness. If the medical folks want to intubate you, your O2 sat is probably shit. To be intubated, you have to be sedated, which further depresses your breathing and stuff. You are FOR REAL sick if you're intubated for a pneumonia thing. (I am not a doctor or a person in the medical field. This is just my take based on what I remember of covid era stuff.)

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