Update about mom

Hi everyone. As many of you probably know, mom's not doing well and is in ICU at St. Joseph's. I'm going to try to post updates here on my blog to try to streamline my conversations. We are doing OK. Dad is doing OK. The kids are doing OK. Right now we are set with meals through tomorrow night and childcare is taken care of through next tuesday afternoon. I'm tryin gto balance my days and nights at the hospital so I'm not away from the kids during all their awake hours.
Mom started feeling bad the friday after thanksgiving. (we all had a wonderful thanksgiving together at my brother Darryl's house in Charlotte) Over the weekend she continued to become more sick and monday went in to St.Joes' for an already-scheduled broncoscopy (sp?). They kept her after that and I spent that night and tuesday with her in the hospital and her breathing was getting worse and worse by the hour. At one point she sat up in the bed and lay back down and was gasping for breath for the following 30 minutes. She needed more and more oxygen and tuesday they decided she needed 100% oxygen and they moved her down to the PICU. She has pneumonia and they have identified a bacteria that they are fighting, but her xRays kept getting worse. Wednesday morning the doctor said he can't be sure if the bigger problem is her Pulmonary Fibrosis (a disease she's been diagnosed with for about a year....it is a progressive disease that gets really awful in the end. People live anywhere from 1 to 18 years with it) or the pneumonia. He didn't think she would be able to continue on the oxygen for more than 24 hours, so they put her on a ventilator yesterday around lunchtime. This gives him more time to work on the pneumonia with the host of antibiotics, steroids and other drugs she's taking. He says if the problem is pneumonia, she has a chance of pulling out of it. If the problem is the fibrosis, there's not much they can do but make her feel more comfortable. So today she's about the same. Her blood pressure has been low and so they can't sedate her as much as they'd like. She's agitated and trying to communicate by writing on a clipboard whenever anyone is visiting so the nurses are really wanting to limit the visitors to just a few minutes every couple of hours.
I'm going down there tonight to see her and be with my dad. Hopefully he'll come home and spend the night here tonight. It will take a couple more days before we know how she's progressing because it's slow.
Thank you so much for your prayers. If you think about it pray for wisdom and discernment for the doctors and for us as we might have to make hard decisions.
The kids were able to see her yesterday before she was put on the ventilator and that was really good for all of them. They're processing it all in their own ways, just like all of us are.
Thanks so much!