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My dad was readmitted into the hospital. They needed to plug something? for a pleural effusion, first needing to get his blood work correct from his blood thinners (10?). They said his blood work was good Friday night but because it was a holiday weekend, they were not going to do the procedure until Monday. He was in the hospital for seven days.
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My mom has severe dementia in her 80s and fell in the long term facility where she was living. After the hospital, they took her to rehab for weeks. A couple of months later my mother became unresponsive. The home called an ambulance and she was taken to the emergency room (ER) where she revived and was fine. The doctors speculated her heart rate went very low in the 30s-40s and then came back up on its own, no treatment.
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