Hello, nice to meet you all. :) my name is Anabella. I’m 19 years old, and my 63 year old mother is currently hospitalized right now with pneumonia. She has COPD ( stage 3/4 Emphysema, severe), Asthma, and some blood pressure issues. She uses a concentrator at night and also takes albueterol and prednisone for her COPD and has a nebulizer and rescue inhalers. On the 24th or 23rd (can’t quite remember..) she was having trouble breathing after a few days prior with her condition worsening from what she thought might just be a cold (at this point she was taking her medicine to try to fight it off but it wasn’t working) . She was using her concentrator all day too, which is uncharacteristic for her (she works, and has been able to live normally without oxygen during the day for a few years). She was taken to the ER after her condition was not improving at home because of all of this - however her breathing improved there so she came home. She did okay on Christmas, still on her concentrator 24/7, but Christmas night she began to struggle breathing again and was taken to the hospital on the 26th. It was there she got diagnosed with pneumonia. She’s been there since in the SICU unit on antibiotics and oxygen 24/7. I’ve visited her everyday, she’s been somewhat alert, mostly, but not herself by any means. She’s been on 6L of oxygen with her stats at 96-100%, but her nurse was saying that’s understandably unsustainable - so they’ve slowly weaned her to about 4L of oxygen where she’s now starting at 88-90%. Aside from that though she’s not really..improving much. In fact, her nurse actually wants her to be on a full bipap machine at night due to her intake levels. My worry now is that those are her numbers on oxygen /not/ moving in bed. I believe they’ve taken another chest X-ray to see how the pneumonia is, so when I go up to the hospital again today I’m going to try to ask to see what the results were. I just really miss my mom. I know it’s not really fair to ask for medical opinions on the internet but I am curious as to what any of your thoughts may be on my moms condition? Basically, I don’t know if I should be anticipating that my mom might die. (I know that’s blunt) I’m so scared - but I’m trying to be strong for her and my other family members like my dad. Anyways, thank you all and happy holidays. I hope you are all doing well and it is nice to meet you (though I wish the circumstances were different). God bless.